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Rei Ti Ware Sierra Cup

Hiking & Camping > CookwearRated: **** by 6 reviews.

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The super-lightweight REI Ti Ware™ Sierra cup helps keep your camp kitchen light and versatile.

  • Sierra-style design is shallow and has a wide opening, making it useful for scooping, serving and sipping
  • Titanium is strong, durable and lightweight
  • Ideal for the backpacker who counts every ounce

Capacity/Volume:10.5 fluid ounces
Dimensions:4.3 x 1.8 inches
Material:Titanium
Weight:1.6 ounces

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Rei Ti Ware Sierra Cup Reviews Summary:

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Positive Reviews:

classic camping accessory

Rating:*****
This is a great cup to bring along on all your outdoor adventures. I couldn't imagine eating my morning oatmeal out of a different dish.

I've been using mine for years and it's still in original condition. The design is a classic one that will surely be around for the ages -- works as a cup, a small bowl, a scoop, or even a little pot. Great versatility. Something about the handle makes it fun to hold outstretched like you're beggin' for food donations from your trip's cook. To make it even better, the titanium makes it super-duper light weight and incredibly durable. I know people who bring these along as their only tableware but I usually also bring a plastic plate with me on my trips for the bigger meals.

By far my fondest sierra cup memory was using it as a miniature deep-fryer for backcountry donuts. I had been on a week-long backpacking trip in the Sierras and my guide surprised us at the end of our trip by revealing that he had brought along a tube of Pillsbury biscuits and a small container of oil. Over the stove he filled the sierra cup with perhaps 1/2" of oil, rolled the biscuit dough into your typical donut shapes with the holes in the middle, and deep fried these suckers to create the most awesome tasting backcountry treat I've ever had. The cup was the perfect size for doing this -- with a full-size pan you'd have to lug way too much oil along with you to make deep-frying actually work. To top it off, he had also sneaked a little zip-lock bag full of powdered sugar with him. The combination of the sugar and being starving for a week out on the trails made this one of my fondest camping memories ever. Highly recommended!
Drew at REI on 06/03/2009

Lightweight!

Rating:*****
It's a cup, it's a bowl, it's two-in-one. It's also weighs next to nothing and is easy to clean. Everything a sierra cup should be. The only drawback to this product is the common complaint of sierra cups: things don't stay hot in them for very long.
SR837 Bear at REI on 03/11/2008

Super light & handy

Rating:*****
Popular with experienced backpackers and hikers who take their dogs with them. Makes a great drinking bowl for pups and easily caribiners to a dog's pack or your own. I wouldn't hike with my dog without it. We use it bikejoring, too.
Tam S at REI on 03/01/2008

It's a winner!

Rating:*****
I hate carrying a cook set. This is extremely light, easy to clean, and good for every aspect of mealtime (cooking, eating, drinking). Withstood several drops and always pops back into shape.
Hittahomer at REI on 09/08/2008

invincible

Rating:*****
Well, there isn't much to say. it is a piece of metal. it works and it dosen't break.if you are looking for a smaller, compact, foldable cup, try the orikaso big bowl.
dewi at REI on 06/22/2008

Negative Reviews:

I'm sorry, but this is ABSURD gear

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This is the most over-rated piece of gear in the history of backpacking. I'd give it zero stars if they would let me. It had its place back in the early days of the Sierra Club (think John Muir's time) when you ran the risk of a donkey stepping on your cup. Today, it is an absurd piece of gear only loved by neophytes or those lost to nostalgia. I bought one back when I was a neophyte, thinking it was *the* thing to have on the trail. Today, 30 years of serious trail later, I can't think of any gear that receives more ridicule among my adventure friends.

Why, you ask. First, it is heavy. Second, it is heavy (yes, even the titanium (woooo) version). Third, it cools hot drinks or food faster than any cup I've ever seen. Fourth, its angled sides are inappropriate for drinks because they lend themselves (very well, in fact) to sloshing the contents right out of the cup. Fifth, it is absurdly small for anything but drinks, especially after a tough hike when one's appetite increases. (Those that say they make or eat meals in it must have bird-like appetites, and have never hiked a serious trail.) Six, although you could conceivably heat something in it, it's pretty much pointless to do so: If you have decided to carry the weight of a stove, then you are doing so to cook something real, and probably for more than one person, so you are quite likely to have a real pot. But again, even if going solo, it is too small for one person.

So PLEASE, if you are a beginner, DON'T buy this as your cup. Instead, buy a strong plastic cup. The one I have and *would* recommend REI no longer sells, it seems. It is a lexan cup, and it is in every way the contrary to this thing. In fact, of *all* my gear over the years (and I've used a lot of gear), my lexan cup might be the item I would praise the MOST! REI does still sell a cup like it, but now they make it out of polypropylene instead of lexan. It's called the Chefware Cup. My lexan cup is exactly the same size and shape. I hate to say it, but REI deserves a loud Booo-Hiss for having discontinued the lexan, no doubt due to ridiculous concerns over BPA. (Ahh, how politically correctness blinds everyone. Go read up on it. Yeah, don't use lexan if you are a woman having a kid. For other adults, don't worry, for Pete's sake.) Lexan is super strong, even when ice cold. My cup is practically indestructible. And the polypropylene version cannot compare. It will not be nearly as durable over the long term. In particular, it is likely to crack if subjected to any force while very cold.

Still, their "New and Improved (ha)" Chefware Cup would make a FAR better choice than the absurd Sierra Cup. And it is only $2!! But see if you can't find some other seller online that still offers lexan. It's the best there is, for cups *and* bowls, on the trail. (And by the way, don't bother with a plate. All you need is a bowl for everything you will ever eat while hiking.)

Please, PLEASE don't listen to anyone who claims they eat out of it, or cook with it. Or even those that pack plates, for that matter. They are inexperienced. Sierra cups deserve to be nailed up as antique decorations in mountain cabins, the way people do with old wooden skis.
planet hiker at REI on 06/28/2009