[pct-l] If not alcohol (stove), then what?

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good afternoon, Mr. Duck,

I resolve the stove problem by just not cooking or heating.  I began eating
cold food in ’07 when the S. Cal. deserts were extremely dry and I didn’t
want to encourage any possibility of starting a wildland fire.



I also save approximately 18 ounces of pot, lid, stove, support, windscreen,
fuel & bottle, and a pot sack.  I always have the stove gear close at hand
at home so it’ll only be a week or so away if I find I no longer enjoy my
cold food.



Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye

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On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:35 AM, greg mushial <gmushial at gmdr.com> wrote:

> If one decides against an alcohol stove (for whatever reason), then what's
> the next choice (for a thru)? I've been using one of MSRs "international"
> "shaker" stoves for years (decades) - international in that it'll burn
> about
> anything, shaker in that one can clean the jet by simply shaking the
> stove...  I like it a lot, especially in that in thousands of hours of use,
> has never failed me, not a once...  but it's way too heavy for a thru.
> What's the next choice per the collective wisdom of the list? A plastic
> fuel
> bottle (?) and a (???). This is also presuming that
> unleadedgas/whitegas/etc
> is as available along the trail as alcohol, if not more so. Or does alcohol
> have the advantage of being shippable in a resupply box (is it??)?
> TIA - TheDuck
>
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