Originally Posted by
homelessjoe
...but in Canada I dont think there is a single place where you cant scrape up some twigs and have a fire unless youre in the middle of a lake
Almost all National and Provincial Parks will have fire bans during the summer forest fire season. I would say a stove is needed if you want to cook in those areas during a tour.
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There are lots of threads here about wood (and other) stoves. Type twig stove into the site search engine for a lot of funny reading. The big brother/denatured alcohol tangent was quite amusing