New Stove from Jetboil

The folks at Jetboil have stepped up their game once again with the Jetboil Helios Cooking System. It will boil a liter of water in 3 minutes, enough to help feed the whole crew on a backpacking trip.

Helios is an all-in-one cooking system that covers the gamut, from melting snow to prepping robust meals for you and your crew. Helios lights quickly and reliably with the click of a button. The system burns liquid fuel, so you can use every last drop in your canister and every boil is consistent. Clip on the windscreen for a steady burn in 10 + mph winds.

This backpacking stove packs down nicely into it's bowl, which saves space and protects the stove from being dinged up on the trail.

Think Outside the Bottle

Here's an initiative that makes sense!

Bottled water corporations are changing the very way people think about water. Corporations like Coke, Nestlé and Pepsi are manufacturing demand for an essential resource that flows directly from our taps. What's more many bottled water brands actually come from the same source as public tap water though these brands are sold back to the public at thousands of times the cost.
Plastic bottles also require massive amounts of fossil fuels to manufacture and transport. Billions of these bottles wind up in landfills every year.
And when bottled water marketing convinces one in five people that the only place to get drinking water is from a bottle, it threatens the political will to adequately fund our public water systems.
You can help reverse this trend - take action today to support efforts to reduce the social and environmental impacts of bottled water and to prioritize public water systems!

From...thinkoutsidethebottle.org

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