[pct-l] HEET - Caution

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good evening, All,

If I wake up in the night and need a drink of water I don’t want to fiddle
around trying to feel if the bottle has duct tape, or flick on my light and
try to read something drawn or written on the bottle.


I have two different bottles I use for fuel:  One comes from a brand of
bottled water that has a square cross-section plastic bottle.  The other
formerly contained a brand of soda pop – which brand I can’t remember – but
its plastic bottle has molded-in bumps all over most of it.  Both are very
distinctive, even when I’m tired and sleepy in the middle of the night.



Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

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On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Brandon McGinnity <bmcginnity at gmail.com>wrote:

> Good tip. I also found with denatured alcohol, it will wash any writing you
> do with a Sharpie right off. The duct tape would be clearly distinguishing
> enough to alert you that it's fuel not water, but try to find a way to make
> it so other people will know in case some fool gets ahold of it. Maybe get
> creative: with little strips of duct tape, form a skull and crossbones on
> the bottle. I don't know...
> -Moccasin
>
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Robert Bellingham <bbandbbpct at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > I found that the small Heet bottles were ok until opened (i.e. silver
> foil
> > seal broken), they then leaked as the screw top did not adequately seal
> them
> > up again. Consider carrying a reliable bottle for fuel and decant into
> it. A
> > drink bottle would do, wrapped in duct tape and clearly ID'd as FUEL
> ONLY.
> >
> > Bob B
> > Slow and Steady - PCT 2010
> >
> >
> > On 20/01/2011, at 12:55 AM, Jackie McDonnell wrote:
> >
> > > The KM store stocks HEET.
> > > Occasionally the KM store sells out of HEET.
> > >
> > > VVR has denatured alcohol by the ounce.
> > >
> > > Details on how to ship HEET:
> > >
> > > http://www.gottawalk.com/shipping_fuel.htm
> > >
> > > <http://www.gottawalk.com/shipping_fuel.htm>yogi
> > > www.pcthandbook.com
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:25 AM, dan kayser <yoyodadio at msn.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >> Does  Kennedy Meadows and/or VVR sell HEET?  Also, could someone point
> > me
> > >> in the direction on how to mail/ship HEET?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >> Dan - Can't Wait!!
> > >>
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