I've been using a venerable MSR Whisperlite camp stove for
decades now. I cannibalized the first one to provide spare
parts for its replacement. After a few tweaks by MSR, most
notably a built-in fuel filter on the fuel intake tube it
has been very reliable. The problem with the Whisperlite is
that it has but two settings, "off" and "melt steel". It'll
boil water in a flash but you can't really cook on it. So
I replaced my old Whisperlite with the MSR Dragonfly. The
new stove works great. I used it to cook dehydrated dinners
which require bringing to the boil and simmering for five
to seven minutes. This would have been nigh on impossible
with the Whisperlite but on the Dragonfly it was just a
matter of turning down the flame. You can still flash boil
water with the Dragonfly but you can simmer too. Recommended.

http://www.msrgear.com/stoves/dragonfly.asp

Mother Nature rarely provides a flat, clean surface in the
northwoods so a small table comes in real handy. The GSI
micro table is just what you need. It does take up a bit of
space in the pack but if you've ever watched helplessly as
your boiling hot dinner slides off a rock into the dirt you'll
appreciate this clever little table. Recommended.

http://www.gsioutdoors.com/detail.as...c2=67&p=55300&

I'm a sucker for neat camping gadgets and I just had to have
one of these poop trowel/toilet paper gadgets. You're supposed
to be able to put TP and a Bic lighter in the collapsible
handle and have everything you need to **** in the woods. The
trouble with this gadget is that it doesn't hold near enough
TP and when you do get the little bit of TP out of it it's
so shredded as to be unusable. You're better off with the old
orange plastic trowel and a baggie full of TP than this thing.
Not recommended.

http://www.seatosummit.com/products/display/60

Our eating implements are a hodgepodge of forty-year old
Boy Scout/Girl Scout mess kits, plastic bowls, aluminum plates,
and way too heavy coffee mug/soup cups we bought after retiring
our practically useless but ubiquitous Sierra Cups. And none of
them fit together or pack well and are in general a pain in the
ass. So I saw this nested, compact, uniform set of plates, bowls
and cups and thought this is just what we need. Like I said, I'm
a sucker in the camping store. The bowls are too flat and too
big, the plates don't have lip enough to keep camp food from
sloshing off and the cups are too square and too hot to handle.
I'm going back to my old hodgepodge. Not recommended.

http://www.gsioutdoors.com/detail.as...sc2=7&p=73609&

I have an old Pur Explorer water filter and I could tell by how
many times I had to backflush and the slow filter rate that I'm
due for a new filter cartridge. I looked for one online when I
got back and there are none. So I replaced it with a Katadyn
Vario. My Pur Explorer was about $160 when I bought it way back
when, this new one was $90. I haven't used it in the field yet
but I'll post a review when I do.

--
Ken Fortenberry