Anybody have suggestions on building a baseplate? I have a few ideas myself with the aluminum heat shield and closed cell foam?

The old standby is a license plate. I hate carrying extra weight so I use the shovel blade. In the Ruth Gorge we buried an empty gallon gas with the broad side flush with the snow and used that as a stove base. I've also seen and used a picket placed horizontally in the snow with the wide, flat part flush for an XGK base.

I've used the shovel blade too. It works well but it ties up the shovel which is the best thing to use to harvest snow to melt. I made one out of some thin aluminum diamond plate. just big enough to be a footprint for the diameter of my stove heat sheild and the fuel bottle. It works well but it weighs about a 1/3 of a pound.

My friend has one that he bought about 10 years ago, I think he got it at REI. It's lexan or plexiglas plastic and it has attachments that hold the stove in place. I've searched but I don't see anything like it for sale anywhere.

RickF wrote:My friend has one that he bought about 10 years ago, I think he got it at REI. It's lexan or plexiglas plastic and it has attachments that hold the stove in place. I've searched but I don't see anything like it for sale anywhere.

Probably the UCO Mightylite stove stand.