About twenty-five of my friends and acquaintances went on a trip to Allegheny State Park last weekend. Most of them stayed in some amazingly cushy cabins, but three of us decided to show them how it's done and went tent camping.

We're kind of hyper-competitive, too. So the goal was to be visibly and obviously better off. Now, we couldn't beat them on sleeping comfort, what with the cabins having electric heaters and mattresses on beds. So we went with cuisine as our plan, and brought about triple the food necessary, then proceeded to cook it over an amazing twenty-first century camping stove, the Biolite CampStove. It's an eight-inch tall bundle of wizardry- it's a stove that burns twigs. The heat generates electricity, which it uses to power a fan to give you amazing heat from said twigs, plus spare electricity to power up electronic devices via a USB port. I'm sure the original intent was hiking GPSes, but they're not dumb, and all the advertising materials show it charging smartphones.

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