[pct-l] Why I'm I carrying an alcohol stove?

[Michael Irving]

That’s very similar to me, although I put a small piece of masking tape on the side and use my “stowaway” pen (super light ballpoint) (like the space pen, but lighter) and put tick marks on the tape, one per boil.  I get about 20 boils out of a 100g (small) canister for my JetBoil filling it up with water to the top 500 ml line.  My “average” is on the PCT in regards to elevation…not in the High Sierra…which I’d guess would be not as many as 20.

-GoalTech


> On Jan 9, 2015, at 2:47 PM, Jay Bruins <jbruins at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I carry a sharpie in my first aid and/or 10 essentials kit. I place tick marks on the bottom for boils. Not perfect, but you can count them. (I used to just shake them, but I’ve carried far more spares than I needed to because of that.)
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>> On Jan 9, 2015, at 2:33 PM, JPL <jplynch at crosslink.net> wrote:
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>> I don't know how to capture the "fiddle with it" quotient, but alcohol has a high (bad) FQ (fiddle quotient), imho.  My Esbit tabs have a low FQ. Canister, butane low but not so much because you can't tell how much fuel you have left (on the trail).  With Esbit tabs, you just count 'em.
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>> -----Original Message----- From: Scott Bryce
>> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 5:29 PM
>> To: PCT-L
>> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Why I'm I carrying an alcohol stove?
>> 
>> On 1/9/2015 2:44 PM, Tim Umstead wrote:
>>> For more then 15 years I have carried an alcohol stove.  While doing
>>> the JMT last summer, as an experiment, I carried a Soto Wind Master
>>> and a canister.  I'm looking at some of my math and I'm surprised at
>>> what I'm seeing and I'm asking myself "Why I'm I carrying an alcohol
>>> stove?"
>>> 
>>> Some background information, I cook for four people,
>> 
>> Conventional wisdom says that if you cook for more than 1 person,
>> alcohol has no advantages over butane.
>> 
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