[pct-l] Fuel Amounts for Pepsi can stove

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Hiker,

what'd you eat?? I'm always lookin for new boil only recipies.

4 days! woohoo!

Conor
class of '04
www.trailjournals.com/conor


In a message dated 4/18/2004 11:15:41 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
hiker@godlikebuthumble.com writes:

> Subj: RE: [pct-l] Fuel Amounts for Pepsi can stove 
>  Date: 4/18/2004 11:15:41 AM Pacific Daylight Time
>  From: hiker@godlikebuthumble.com
>  To: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
>  Sent from the Internet 
> 
> 
> 
> At 04:04 PM 4/17/04, Bill Wilson wrote:
> >In the original post I didn't indicate a resupply is 12 
> >days,<...snip.....? The turning point is
> >about 6 to 8 days which is the PCT resupply time. So in my book it's a
> >toss up.  HYOH, but for me when it's a toss up,
> 
> Actually 6-7 days is the LONGEST you will go without resupply.The rest of 
> the time you will have shorter segments (assuming thru-hiker daily 
> distances.) So by your numbers, an alcohol stove will always be a better 
> choice for a thru hiker.
> 
> >Simmer capability, can cook cakes, bisquits, and foods to make the hike
> >enjoyable, not mac n cheese only
> 
> I ate all sorts of stuff besides mac n cheese, and all I did was boil 
> water. ALL my food was enjoyable (except the corn pasta.) Cakes and 
> biscuits were town treats.
> 
> Simmering is for weekenders <g>
> 
> >You don't need to worry about extra compressed canisters between
> >resupply points because THE SPILLPROOF amounts IN the canister will
> >easily go 6 days. With alcohol you are gambling on 1 oz versus 2 oz per
> >day, so you WILL tend to carry more fuel than you need.
> 
> So if you are leaving on a 3 day segment, and you have a full cannister, 
> you have to carry more than 6 days of fuel? Sounds like unneeded weight. 
> BTW, if you have a partial cannister, how do you tell the remaining fuel? 
> If you have a partial cannister and are leaving on a 6 day segment, how do 
> you know if you have enough fuel? or do you just carry a spare? My alcohol 
> fuel bottle is clear and has graduations on the outside. I ALWAYS leave 
> town with the right amount of fuel.
> 
> And as far as running out while cooking, that only happened the first few 
> times. I got very good at guesstimating how much fuel to load the stove 
> with. Best part is the stove is cool and ready to pack very quickly, even 
> if I'm just making coffee in the morning - try packing a steel stove 30 
> seconds after you are done using it......
> 
> And SPILLPROOF is over rated. I had an O-ring fail on a GAZ stove while 
> cooking in europe: can you say "blow torch?"
> 
> So every stove had its safety problems. The GAZ stove was quite pretty in 
> the fading sunset as it free fell down the side of the Petite Dru. My 
> partner punted it off the ledge where we were cooking.
> 
> I have used cannister stoves extensively, and there are lots of places I'd 
> prefer them to an alcohol stove, but a thru hike is not one of them......
> 
> HYOH, YMMV
> 
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