[pct-l] Jetboil and Snow

[JPL]

>From Backpacker: "It requires serious pumping to maintain a hot blue flame."

-----Original Message----- 
From: Dale Combs
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 6:48 PM
To: pct-l at backcountry.net
Subject: [pct-l] Jetboil and Snow

My experience with propane stoves below 32 degress has not been good.
I use white gas stoves for snow trips. For decades MSR was the favored 
brand.
Now there's a new white gas stove by Soto named Muka that is supposed to be
the easiest to light, snow melter/water boiler.

If you do use propane on a snow trip, to make it work, keep your gas 
canisters warm
in your coat pocket and sleeping bag at night. You can also keep your gas 
canister in a warm water bath. Keep the canister warm and the stove works 
fine. Boyles Law.

Having a good stove to melt snow on a snow trip can be very important. 
Otherwise it can be 11 am before you're ready to leave camp with full water 
bottles on a day when
by 4 pm you might want to start digging in for the night.

Dale
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