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[pct-l] IsoButane



We shipped fuel canisters in most of our re-supply boxes on the CDT this
year. We went down to the local post office with a canister and asked the
lead postal clerk how to label the boxes. She looked up the fuel in the
postal regs, then looked up the labeling requirements for that class of
hazardous materials. We found that by putting the label:
  Consumer Commodity ORM-D
  Surface Mail Only
on boxes containing canisters that we could mail up to 3 canisters in a box.
Since 3 canisters would last for more days than we wanted to carry between
re-supplies, we had no problem. Because of the "Surface Mail Only" we had to
allow a couple extra days for the shipping to some remote locations.

We took another tact in hiking the PCT. We called the fuel supplier and
asked them to ship the fuel. Since they charged us for shipping we ended up
taking 3 canisters at a time. This resulted in carrying more fuel than we
needed most of the time.

Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Wright" <at2002@earthlink.net>
To: <CMountainDave@aol.com>
Cc: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 7:55 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] IsoButane


>
> On Sunday, October 27, 2002, at 08:00  PM, CMountainDave@aol.com wrote:
> > Coleman fuel is the ONLY fuel (other than wood)to be found in quantity
> > along
> > the PCT. You might find Isobutane in Big Bear City, S. Lake Tahoe and
> > Ashland, but I doubt very much that it is sold elsewhere.
>
> It is possible and legal to send IsoButane cartridges via the regular
> postal service.
> It has to be labeled correctly and sent ground only but it is possible.
>   Since one
> cartridge lasts three to four weeks, it wouldn't be to difficult to
> have them sent to
> maildrop locations along the way.
>
> It would be great to hear from some 2002 PCT hikers to see if this
> worked for
> them.  I used the PocketRocket on the AT this year and had no trouble
> finding
> fuel at the outfitters along the way (which are much more common on the
> AT
> than the PCT as I understand).
>
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