[pct-l] Alcohol availability? Mailing fuel

[Mann]

We hope to thru-hike the CD in Œ10.  I expect we¹ll probably take our
alcohol stove, though we may use the pocket rocket for the colder, wetter
areas.  Still need to do some research.  If we were thru-hiking the PCT
again, I¹d do what we did last time, assuming the timing was the same.  We
used the pocket rocket just for northern OR and all of WA.

There were two of us and we only used the stove for dinner.  I think we got
new canisters (the small ones) about once a week, but we never were even
close to out, even with two of us.

-Frodo (Sandy Mann)



On 1/26/09 5:33 AM, "Phil Newhouse" <newhoupa1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Frodo,
> 
> Will you use the pocket rocket on your next "thru"?    :-)
> 
> How often did you have to get new canisters?
> 
> phil
> 
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Mann <bmann1 at san.rr.com> wrote:
>> When Scout and I thru-hiked in '07, we used an alcohol stove for most of the
>> trip, but wanted something a bit hotter and easier to use for the last part.
>> We used a pocket rocket that attaches to a butane canister.  We had REI ship
>> us canisters (they only ship the small ones), and that worked out great.
>> Never any worries.
>> 
>> BTW, we packed out our TP.  Wish all hikers did the same.  It was no big
>> deal.  Didn't do anything special with it in bear territory, it just stayed
>> in our toiletry kit (zip-loc bag) with fresh TP and Purell.
>> 
>> -Frodo
>> 
>> 
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