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This was our first time using an ultra-thin Eva foam pad, and despite initial skepticism, we absolutely loved it! It was one of our favorite pieces of gear. It has multiple uses: slight boost to the R value of your sleeping pad, protects your sleeping pad from sharp rocks (although, again, this turned out not to be a big problem), prevents the inflatable pad slipping on the tent floor, great for sitting on or taking a nap on. Normally when hiking I just sit on rocks, the ground, or fallen trees directly, and it always causes holes in my hiking pants after a while. Not with the foam pad! Also, it's useful for organizing your gear and food without getting it dirty (it gets pretty dusty in some sections, especially in the north).

We bought this stove because we were concerned about cooking in windy conditions; in reality, we almost always had pretty sheltered campsites. So, I'd say that any normal camping stove works. Camping gas was usually not too hard to find. We tried out the gas canister refilling once (described in the manual), and it mostly worked, but it is a bit of a finicky process, and we decided it was not worth the minor cost savings for us.