[pct-l] wood stoves

[Diane at Santa Barbara Hikes dot com]

On Jan 25, 2009, at 8:51 PM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:

> surely we don't want to deplete the landscape of available organic  
> material, a.k.a. 'firewood'.
The amount of wood a wood stove uses is tiny. You use small sticks 2  
inches long. You can hardly call this 'firewood'. You could even burn  
manure in it. The PCT isn't a high alpine, above treeline experience  
most of the time, and you can use an alcohol stove in more sensitive  
areas.