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2 guides tagged Msr
Buyer's Guide
The Best Backpacking Stoves (2026)
Four canister stoves that settle the category: the 2.6-ounce-listed default that half the backcountry carries, the boil machine that turns snowmelt into coffee before your tent is staked, the Jetboil that can actually simmer, and the stove that keeps its flame when the wind has other plans. Ranked on the only metric that matters: hot food, reliably, for the fewest ounces.
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Buyer's Guide
The Best Backpacking Tents (2026)
The best backpacking tent of 2026 is the Big Agnes Copper Spur HV UL2, the ultralight freestanding benchmark experienced backpackers keep converging on. Around it we ranked the field the way we rank everything: by whether every ounce earns its place, from the livability-first MSR and the roomy NEMO Dagger to the $150 budget tent that made the category affordable, plus one honest warning about the car-camping tent people keep trying to carry up a mountain.
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