Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

First off I bought this for river trips. We have four big river trips planned for this summer all require a fire pan for leave no trace fires. I did my research, extensively, and this one seemed to be the best of all options. I contacted the Colorado Forest Service and did verify this fire pit is accepted on all Forest Service and BLM lands. After looking at this fire pit I will admit I was extremely skeptical at the quality of it. I mean it's hard for me to believe one can have a good fire on a metal screen, but hey weirder things have happened. Anyway I did go ahead and buy it and I will say I was and am completely blown away at how this performs. Everything about this is exactly as it is described by the manufacturer. Its very easy to set up, it will hold a lot of wood, there literally was no ash that came through the screen which docent even seem possible to me. There was a tiny big of ash that was under the fire pit, and I mean a tiny amount I could blow away and you would never know it was there. That ash came from getting in-between the mesh screen and the metal frame and only after a few times of use and being loaded down with wood to where the screen was slightly flared up where it meets the screen allowing a small amount of ash to get blown under it. getting the fire started is very easy, we simply put a ball of dryer lint in the center then built up the fire around that then from underneath the fire pit we lit a match and boom, we had a fire. This is definitely not a compact super light weight fire pit and will not do in a backpacking situation. However for car camping, at your home, a party in the park or on a river canoe/raft trip this bad boy is amazing. On our second canoe trip a mile before out final take out we flipped out canoe on a rapid and we lost our Pop-Up Fire Pit, given up to the River Gods. Once we got home from that trip we got online and ordered another one and this time we also ordered the grill attachment. We're very excited to try out that pup out and grill up some steaks on out next river trip. All in all I would say, as someone who is very skeptical of things that seem too good to be true, this fire pit is the real deal. I wont buy anything else other than this, again unless I was backpacking and weight and space was an issue. If you are reading this that means you're definitely serious about this particular fire pit and I promise you that you will be so stoked you went with this one over another option.