A Dutch Oven for Backpacking

Going backpacking or canoeing and are disappointed you can't make some of your favorite meals because the Dutch Oven is just too heavy and cumbersome to take with you?   Despair no longer!

John G. Ragsdale in Dutch Oven Cooking  describes an oven he made out of aluminum pie pans.

These three are just to show the configuration.
You would want more sturdy pans & painted. 

He took 3 heavy gage aluminum pie pans, painted the outsides black plus one inside, and then assembled two pie pans together  with heat resistant screws so that the concave parts are facing out.

When he uses them, the  bottom pan is placed a bit above the fire on rocks or steel tent pegs and the assembled pie pans become the cover and coal holder.  Make sure the black inside surface is the coal holder, not the side next to the food.

When it is time to pack up, the screws can be undone, the pans nested and the screws reattached so that they don't get lost.

Now, that is one resourceful camper!