HJ,

Love your daughter!! Enjoy the time. Before you know it she will be older (but a trip to Admiralty Island with mine does help to make up for it).

I bought the Wetfire version, and found it to be worse than the Esbit I have used for years. You must use a smaller tea cup than I do, neither will boil the water here in FL. Both will do it at 10,000 plus feet, but that is not so much of a chore.

I have tried the stove as a pot stand for a small wood fire (I used them for years for "boiling the noon kettle") where it worked fine. Just a double handfull of thumb sized squaw wood (Rocky Mtn. pines) will do for a quick cup. Not a lot cleaner than the Esbit though.

I will keep it for a PSK or something, it is nice and light but I wish they had the fuel cup on a pivot (working on that) so that it would pack flat.

Respectfully,

Jerry

p.s. I am enjoying your "stove of the week" very much. I am not much of a stovie(4 stoves in 40 years, two of them the same), but I enjoy learning about them.