Re: [pct-l] Alcohol as a fuel

["Lee Wilson" <leew@ados.com>]

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>From: CMountainDave@aol.com
>To: pct-l@backcountry.net
>Subject: [pct-l] Alcohol as a fuel
>Date: Thu, Apr 20, 2000, 10:12 PM
>

> But
> it seems to me that unless you mailed it in a package, alcohol would be
> harder to find in towns and resorts along the PCT than white gas, which I
> found to be stocked in most places. I switched to a wood burning Sierra zip
> stove last year after watching one in action by a thru hiker. I love it to
> death, and ain't ever going back to my $#&%@* whisperlite!! Any thoughts on
> this? Mountain Dave
I think it would be easier to find: whisky, isopropyl, methanol (in gas line
antifreeze), denatured at hardware stores. I've burned each of these in my
stove.

lee
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