[pct-l] Last minute changes

[Eric Lee (GAMES)]

L-Rod wrote:
>
Radar -- my thoughts exactly.  Alcohol stoves have fewer moving parts (as in
zero) that can break or malfunction, and no guessing how much fuel you have
in some opaque cannister.  They work 100% of the time, under every
condition.
>

That is, until you knock over the alcohol bottle that you left uncapped while you were setting up the stove, then no more fuel = sad hiker.  And didn't we decide last year (?) that alcohol stoves can be a fire hazard in SoCal if people aren't very, very careful with them?

I think that in terms of things that could possibly go wrong, I'd rate Esbit as most reliable, then canisters, then alcohol.  That said, Esbit and canisters have other drawbacks, and I like using stuff that I made myself, so I generally pack an alcohol stove on solo trips.

Eric