I may bring a littlbug on my next trip.  However, I'll also bring a gas stove backup, (but with less gas).  If the littlbug can provide 80% of my heating needs, it will save me weight and gas.  The gas stove then becomes Plan B when the weather is really crappy and miserable.  That's the plan, for now.

prouboy

`What do you guys think of those little home made pop can alcohol stoves as back ups to the twig burners ? The littlbug and it's brothers all seem to allow their use. 4 or 5 ounces of denatured alcahol should be good for half a dozen times when nothing dry can be found without spitting wood.  If nothing else,a small splash of alcohol ought to start anything better than a sponge on fire.   A while back,someone in BWJ suggested carrying hand sanitizer as a fire starter. I like my little one burner coleman,but it is kind of bulky and too stinky to keep with my food in my blue barrel.   Making hot water in the mornig would'nt be harder splashing a littie alcohol in that little can stove and touching it off with my bick lighter than getting the larger stove going   . sounds good on paper...