From brewing the perfect cup of coffee at the campground to rehydrating the best backpacking meals in an instant, having a reliable cooking system to boil water makes all the difference when camping.

Adam Roy is the executive editor of Backpacker. He lives in Colorado’s Front Range, where he spends his free time hiking, climbing, and running his home mountains. New perk: Easily find new routes and ...

The Jetboil Flash is, quite rightly, most famous for the incredible speed with which it brings water to the boil – stick 500ml in the pot, fire it up and in just over a minute and a half the stove ...

Why It RulesThe first effort from a scrappy New England startup, the Jetboil represents a total rethink of backcountry cookery. A tall one-liter pot—aluminum, with a hard anodized cooking surface and ...