I forgot to mention the stove - lots of memories. (Didn't everybody use it?) Mine is now sitting on the bookshelf of a young man that I taught to backpack, helped him earn his backpacking merit badge, and shared many meals cooked over that stove in many great campsites neither of us would have visited if it hadn't been for the other.

When my wife and I downsized to our condo, he had just finished his tour as a Navy SEAL and was settling into his first house with his wife. It seemed only fitting that he get the stove to use as a bookend for the complete set of Fletcher's hardbound books (all 4 Complete Walkers, plus all the others) that I sent along with it.