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Camp Shelter & Fire
Tarps, canopy sidewalls, tent footprints, stakes and guylines for wind, screen houses, and fire pit and ember mats. Fire picks follow the Forest Service's campfire rules, and canopies and heaters are checked against CPSC recalls.
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Poly, silnylon, silpoly and DCF, and pitches for wind and rain.
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Stakes by ground type, and guylines with tensioners.
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Footprints sized just under the floor.
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Sidewalls, weights and each maker's wind limit.
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Fire pit and ember mats, and why no mat beats a fire ban.
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Screen houses and screen tents for the table.
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Why the CDC says no heater in a tent, and what a CO alarm adds.
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LifeStraw, Sawyer Squeeze and Mini, LifeStraw Peak and the GRAYL GeoPress compared on pore size, lifespan and what they remove, with the CDC's advice on viruses.
Why MSR and Jetboil forbid windscreens on canister-top stoves, how MSR's remote-canister and liquid-fuel stoves use one safely, and the screens and stoves to buy.
Small UL-rated extinguishers and fire blankets for camp kitchens, trailers and trucks, compared on each maker's printed rating and the USFA's rules for use.
Hammock tarps compared on size, coating, seam tape and tie-outs, and underquilts on the temperature each maker claims, since no ISO test covers underquilts.
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