>>137098You've got to also count the weight of the fuel canister and the bulk of both together. I can put my headlamp in my pocket. Can you put a gas lantern and fuel canister in your pocket?
It it's a backup to your headlamp, then why should your backup be more heavy and more bulky than your primary light source? Get a tiny LED keychain light for backup, throw it in your first aid kit, and forget you are even carrying it. I don't remember if a flashlight is one of the official ten essentials, but it's definitely one of the least essential ones. Learn how to set up your tent in the dark, learn how to use the Moon or a campfire for light, and just don't hike at night if your headlamp breaks.
>I'll accept that to be a legitimate risk. But so is going innawoods in the first place.As someone who rides a motorcycle, I should be the last person to lecture about acceptable risk, since that's a totally personal thing and different for everybody, but as someone who does 99% of his backpacking solo, has gotten lost before, has had animals get into my food, has injured himself in the outdoors, knows people who have been struck by lightning, and has had to patch up other people's injuries that later required stitches, I've got to say that you're "doing it wrong" if you're not trying to minimize risk at all times while in the woods. I'm not going to say that some gas lantern is an unacceptable risk - it's really just a minor one - but thinking of being in the outdoors as "risky so what's the harm in adding more risk" will not end well for anybody.
