I forgot - I also wanted to comment on your gas stove. 
Does it have a back and sides?, such as shown on many stoves here:
http://www.coleman.com/coleman/ColemanCom/subcategory.asp?CategoryID=2010
This is what we use - it helps with the wind a lot.
In your pictures, I didn't see any back and sides.

very nice pictures of the Badlands.  On that one narrow piece that stuck out - how wide was that?  I was on something like that once and I had to get down and crawl on it - even though it was wide enough - it was too scary/weird feeling - and I couldn't go very far .