[pct-l] Oregon, tent cooking, and water

[Gary Wright]

>
> I was originally going to write to remind newbies that while many  
> hikers might cook in their stoves, conventional wisdom says that it  
> is NOT RECOMMENDED because of the danger of carbon monoxide  
> poisoning. Then I started to do some research and learned that the  
> newer butane stoves *may* let off lower levels of CO.

I think the bigger danger is that you'll light your tent on fire. Sil- 
nylon is quite flamable.  I would only be concerned with carbon  
monoxide if the tent was buttoned down as when winter camping  
otherwise I think there would be plenty of air exchange.  This might  
be a good topic for Mythbusters to explore.