Camp Furniture

Kitchen
Portal makes a collapsable kitchen, complete with two small pantries and a kitchen sink. It's flanked with pedestals above the pantries to hold a gas stove and a cooler,




with a removable work space that reveals a canvas wash basin.

The top shelf is flanked by two poles designed to suspend lanterns.

The pantries are divided and have integrated straps to hold everything in place.

I stow the pantries, cast iron grill and gas appliances in a large Pelican case to keep the mess clean.


While all this made for most of the comforts of home, it added up quickly in mass and weight and became less convenient in packing, set-up and breaking camp. With the sale of the Montero and downsizing to the H3, I sold the kitchen set-up and opted for what we've been using on our kayak and motorcycle adventures.

I created a smaller, easily packable mess kit for the H3 that includes a small table, a GSI Outdoors Pinnacle Dualist mess kit, two Brunton stoves, a JetBoil, a cutting board and gas canisters along with an MSR water purifier not pictured here. It's all packed and protected in a Pelican 1500 case.  Click the Cooking tab for mess gear reviews. 

Seating and Tables
For seating we picked up a couple of GCI Outdoor Express Lounge Chair from Sportsman's; comfort and packability being the key factors in the choice.

They're easy to collapse, have a small storage footprint and are stable. We've gone through a pair in one season of camping, not too impressed with their rigidity, a weak link being a plastic coupling at the junction of the arms and seat. A hose clamp is a quick fix and reinforcement.

The table pictured is a Westfield XL Aluminum Roll Table, 43X27X27. It collapses into a tube sack and has an adjustable leg to even out the ground. Lightweight and packable alongside other long, narrow items, we found the hardware to mount the table's slats to be flimsy, and the plastic finishing items were pretty fragile.

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