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Thanks for the great idea of keeping food warm for later! I eat cold nasty food just so I don't have to pack it out. I have seen unburned foil in campsites,
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This is a new site from BackCountry.com, and they are giving away free stuff. To get to the site (which is a beta site right now) one has to use a code. They
One of the benefits I've found from starting to use a "cozy" -- my favorite personal gear change of 2009 -- is that it holds my food warm enough that if I get