[pct-l] Isobutane Canister performance

[Matt Signore]

I hope the outside temperature stays the same for all your hikes. Same with
the water temperature before being put on the stove.  Make sure to stay at
the same elevation for every meal.  Otherwise you will find all your
calculations are unreliable in other conditions.  Just a few considerations.

Matt Signore
pcthandbook.com

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Mary Kwart <mkwart at gci.net> wrote:

>
> Hi, all:
>
> I just finished hiking the Oregon section of the PCT and finally got
> to definitively figure out how much fuel I use. I packed an MSR
> isobutane cartridge that had an 8 oz net weight. I boiled 1 3/4 cup of
> water daily and put the boiling water in a freezer ziplock with the
> food in a cozy to cook. I used a snow peak canister stove attachment
> and a titanium pot. It took 6.1 grams of fuel to boil 1 3/4 cup water.
> I still had about a quarter of the fuel canister left after I reached
> the Washington border. Now I know how to gage what's left in all my
> partially used canisters at home. I can get about 37 days of 1 boil a
> day from a larger MSR canister.
> --Fireweed
>
>
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Matt Signore
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