MSR XGK EX Stove > Reviews > Up Up and Away, With this great XGK!!

Author's product rating:   

Durability	Excellent
Style	Good
Value for Money	Excellent
Ease of Use	very good
Weight	average

Advantages:	Will burn well just about any fuel you can find to use, good at altitude .
Disadvantages:	Not as good looking a stove as others in the series !  Keep a spares kit .

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

If you really do want the latest, most fancy, up to the minute backpacking stove then look at the rest of this great manufacturers range!!! There will most certainly be an MSR stove there just for someone just like you! If however, just like little old me, you really want a go anywhere and do just about anything stove, to backpack all around this world with, then PLEASE do look no further. Your journey for finding a perfect backpackers stove is over, and you have arrived at your requested detination, right on time!!! I own two of these excellent stoves, both bought from Field and Trek, if I recall correctly. I got my first of these when Chris Townsend reccomended them in Trail magazine, or was it TGO??? Being a bit of a CT fan I wanted the same stove that the old master backpacker had!! I was later often glad that I did have! When in a strange and far away country, out of fuel, with little to burn available; This is the stove that turns up trumps with every potential back country fuel you shall meet!!! It can burn just about the full range except nuclear!! Mine even burned pure alcohol, aviation fuel, petrol and more, with minimal adjustments. Lots of small parts though, that do tend to go missing, in the wilds,when you clean it!! So always keep with you the MSR XGK spare parts/maintanance kit to hand for any emergencies!!!! One stove of mine is an original XGK, and the other stove is the better later XGKII improved model. The currently available model is basically the manufacturers up to date XGKII. This is as good as it gets, really!