[pct-l] Fuel

[Joshua Pinedo]

Mary,

Thanks for the feedback, it sounds like I can both ways with my options.
Even though I love my pocket rocket, I may go the way of the lighter alcohol
stove, plus I like arts and crafts :)

thanks everyone for your help, very very much appreciated

best,

Josh P

On 30 December 2010 02:00, Mary Kwart <mkwart at gci.net> wrote:

> Josh:
>
> I used a canister stove on my 1000 mile PCT section hike last year. I
> thought I would have a problem finding the canisters, but didn't. There were
> always some half full ones in the hiker boxes. I did have a friend ship some
> canisters to me in Washington at White Pass. It turned out that stores can't
> ship them to individual's without having their employees go through special
> hazardous material training. So my friend just sent them to me--he had to
> declare that they were hazardous material at the post office and it had to
> have a certain label on it--this list serve has discussed what exactly needs
> to be done. It sounds more complicated than it really was.
>
> --Fireweed
>