My Coleman stove died on the first night of a 5-day Boundary Waters trip. The debate: should I have brought a backup stove or just a repair kit?

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Hot take: Bring the backup. Robert is right about packing a backup for the important stuff, but a stove in the Boundary Waters is past important, it's a safety thing. A repair kit is useless if the main part is totally broken, and you can't exactly run to the store. A tiny backup stove weighs nothing and saves the whole trip. I'd never go out there without two ways to boil water.

robert_rodriguez662mo ago

Always pack a backup for the important stuff.

kevin2182mo ago

Learned that the hard way last year. My only copy of a project got corrupted right before a deadline. Now I keep three copies in different places.