Re: [pct-l] Open fires

["Brett Tucker" <blisterfree@hotmail.com>]

>From: Jeff Eckert <jeeter@cari.net>:

>From a hiker's perspective, the trail is, more often than not, cut through
>Chaparral, a word translatable as "brush fire fuel".

>Anyway, I think down here, the risk is too great for me to use an open 
>fire.

Right. I think the occasional fire, in a safe area, built, tended, and 
extinguished using all the right techniques, might be an idea for the 
experienced individual to consider. But I don't presume to be such an 
individual in this regard, and I don't think the list is a forum in which to 
presume that of the average reader, either. In other words, this may not be 
the best place for endorsing an open fire as an alternative to using a 
stove. What we don't need are a bunch of Campo newbies (been there) deciding 
to shed their packweight, at the cost of a blackened trail corridor. 
Besides, looks like dropping the stove requires picking up a shovel. What 
kind of a trade off is that?

- Blisterfree

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