A good problem to have...

[pkupmn98]

If you have not tried one yet, check out their amazing chairs. I forgot the name of them, but they are under 2# and amazingly comfortable! Two friends have them, and I do not...yet. so jealous when we get to camp and I gotta find a rock or log.

[The Tree Frog]

If you have not tried one yet, check out their amazing chairs. I forgot the name of them, but they are under 2# and amazingly comfortable! Two friends have them, and I do not...yet. so jealous when we get to camp and I gotta find a rock or log.

I usually bring my Grand Trunk to lounge in. Easy up and down setup. Thanks though. I will take a look.

[ScottyDale]

If you have not tried one yet, check out their amazing chairs. I forgot the name of them, but they are under 2# and amazingly comfortable! Two friends have them, and I do not...yet. so jealous when we get to camp and I gotta find a rock or log.

+1on the chair idea. Beats sitting on a ccf pad on a boulder after 10 miles on you feet...

[UncleMJM]

I am i a similar place as the OP. Most of what I want or plan to purchase next comes from cottage industry folks. I think I own everything I ever needed for outdoor gear that REI carries, (not everything I ever wanted though), so I ordered an extra pair of Sahara pants that were on sale, a few MH meals, and a couple of backpacks for my dogs.

[widnerkj]

Bio light stove! I use mine all the time. It's no jetboil. But it's really handy. Works like a furnace. Burns so hot it won't soot up your pots. And you can charge things with it while you cook. They have a new big one coming out soon as well.

[mychal]

If you have not tried one yet, check out their amazing chairs. I forgot the name of them, but they are under 2# and amazingly comfortable! Two friends have them, and I do not...yet. so jealous when we get to camp and I gotta find a rock or log.

pkupmn98, which type of chair are you talking about? I'm looking to buy a small chair, and I'll probably just go with something that gets rave reviews from someone on here. I'm wondering if you are talking about the REI stool, or one of those Therm-a-rest Trekker chairs that only works if you insert a pad into it, or one of those stadium-looking chairs where only straps hold the back up (similar to the Trekkers, but doesn't need a pad inserted).

Gracias.

[Hammonkey]

If you do want to cook, going with a small canister stove (Soto makes some nice ones) and something like one of the GSI cooksets (pick the one to best suit your needs) might be good.

In my experience GSI products are junk. I don't understand why this is constantly recommended.

GSI has alot of very gimmicky features that dont really add anything useful. First off this cookset comes with a very narrow pot. This is great for boiling water, but for any kind of cooking, what you end up with is burnt on the bottom, uncooked on top. This also makes serving and cleaning more difficult as well as trying to sit it on rocks over a cookfire.

This brings me to my next qualm about GSI. You'll only be able to cook over a camp stove. They love to use plastic. Plastic on everything. not just any plastic, the cheapest flimsy soft plastic that literally goes limp when it's warmed up. Their pot lids are plastic, they coat the handles in plastic. Trying to cook over a fire with plastic bits results in melted and burnt plastic bits, so that's out of the question.

Now a little more about this plastic they make everything from, their bowls that usually come with the kits, their utensils ans serving utensils and cutting board... all made of the same poorly selected soft limp plastic. Trying to serve anything or flip anything with their serving spoon or spatula is tricky when the handle bends and droops under the weight of the food.

GSI uses very poorly conceived designs for their gear. Aside from poor material selection and pot dimensions and using plastic in places they shouldn't, they like to get cute with their gimmicky folding doodads. Let me tell you this stuff is ALL gimmick. These folding features create more of a problem than they solve. They use extra material to make it fold up compactly however these joints weaken the integrity of the handles which are already limp as a noodle to begin with given the soft plastic they're made of. The other thing this makes a nightmare is cleanup. There are ridges and holes and little spaces for food to get stuck and hide. Over a several day trip, this gets NASTY.

Another testament to brilliant design is their cutting board, which again is made of the same soft junk plastic which would be fine if they didn't have the other bright idea of rolling it up in the kit for compactness. So you've got a soft rolled up piece of plastic that will never roll out flat. you're either cutting on top of a spring that launches your food everywhere as you try to cut, or its rocking all over the place again spilling your food everywhere as you chop.

I don't think that the GSI cooksets have a single redeemable quality aside from their stackability, but any well thought out cookset will do this anyway.

[Lamboy]

Not sure if you have used all your refund back yet, but you can always buy nothing and ask for it in cash in June. That was you can spend it outside of REI. Just a thought.

[Boothill]

if it were me and i had a couple hundred in dividends and their 30% off anniversary coupon (which i realize is expired now) i would go big and get car roof cargo box.......but that's just me and what i am planning for next years dividend purchase

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[brohawk]

Monarch Alite camp chair. 17oz of awesomeness! Bought one with my rei points this year.