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I'm planning to go on a brief tour camping out for perhaps two nights. It could be hot or might even snow.
I want my wife to come but she's a not keen (yet). Can anyone give any pointers on buying a tent. What if my wife goes; two tents??
What sort of cooker do you usually take on a bike?
Thanks
If you're going to be going someplace that might snow ( and presumably will have sub-freezing temps ), canister stoves can be iffy, unless you get one that can be manually pressurized.
There's a persistent belief that alcohol stoves are also inadequate for cold weather operation, but I've never had a problem as long as I provide insulation from the ground and/or snow. I use a white-box alcohol stove (
http://www.whiteboxstoves.com/ ) and it works great, though you can also find a few zillion homemade pepsi-can stoves plans on the net, if you prefer.