[pct-l] old svea

[gary_schenk at verizon.net]

 Until it died in the Tehachapis last month, I was using a Optimus remote canister stove with a Primus ETA pot. The ETA pot has a built in heat exchanger. Using that pot and a windscreen, that stove would have water boiling crazy fast. You had to have everything ready to go before lighting that thing up, because you didn't have time to go opening dinner or looking for the tea.

It was a heavy set up perhaps, but it was mega efficient with fuel. We took a large cartridge on the JMT last year and that cartridge was good for a month. The smallest cartridge is good for a week. Of course all we did was bring water to a boil.

Actually, the big cartridge did not last the whole JMT. A friend met us in Mammoth to hike to Tuolumne and she brought a food resupply for us. She brought us quinoa! We used more fuel in two days cooking quinoa than we had used the previous week!

Gary
 

On 04/02/13, Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes wrote:

Trailhacker has a jet boil now. The other night he used it to test 
out some trail meals he's working on. He got his water boiling in 
what seemed like 30 seconds. Talk about fuel lasting forever. Even if 
it takes twice or four times as long outside it's still impressively 
efficient. And even if there is some stove that is more efficient, 
I'm seriously jealous of his ability to eat hot food nearly instantly.

On Apr 2, 2013, at 10:00 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:

> Subject: Re: [pct-l] old svea
>
> Maybe Jim was ranting, but white gas stoves have a lot of good 
> points. The fuel lasts forever. Or it seems to anyway. White gas 
> gives you more bang for the buck than alcohol. That offsets the 
> weight of the stove somewhat. And you don't leave a line of spent 
> cartridges in your wake.
>
> Each stove set up has its plusses and minuses. YMMV
>
> Gary

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