[pct-l] Cooking System and Fuel

Sabrina Harrison troopharrison at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 15:29:53 CDT 2016


What's a cozy, Day-Late? 

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> On Apr 2, 2016, at 9:24 PM, DayLate07 . <dthibaul07 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Who only hikes 10 hours a day?  Slacker /s
> 
> But I will say that as autumn started hitting I really noticed the shorter
> days cutting into my hiking time.
> 
> I use a slow cooking method where most of my food cooks in a cozy.  Boil
> water, dump into food and put in cozy, wait 20 to 30 minutes, eat.
> 
> During that 20 to 30 minutes I find things to keep me busy.  Setting up
> camp for the night, getting my maps ready for the next day, writing in my
> journal, cleaning up, etc.
> 
> I'm usually asleep pretty shortly after eating - cause I tired, heck, I
> just hiked more than 10 hours.
> 
> Day-Late
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> 2016-03-31 10:55 GMT-07:00 David Money Harris <David_Harris at hmc.edu>:
>>> It cooks faster than anything else out there, and uses less fuel.
>> 
>> I understand the value  of using less fuel, but I keep hearing from
>> friends about the benefit of the JetBoild being fast.
>> 
>> Considering that a typical thru hiker is not going to be walking more
>> than 10 hours, of the 16 hours of daylight, could someone tell me what
>> exactly is the benefit of saving 5-10 minutes off cooking time for a
>> really slow stove?
>> 
>> 
>> 
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