[pct-l] Blueut Stoves History

[Bighummel at aol.com (Bighummel@aol.com)]

A few of you have seen the one-of-a-kind machine shop made, four solid 
aluminum leg, two burner, canister stove that I carried in '77.  It weighs in just a 
bit over 1 pound!!!!  (without the canister).  I even still have a few of the 
old canisters that I bought in '76 in preparation for my hike and have been 
slowly using them; the gas, of course, still good and useable.  

At Whitney Creek on a morning when my little thermometer read 4 degrees and 
my water bottle was half frozen, I tired to light my stove inside my tent while 
still in my sleeping bag.  I lit a match and could hear the gas coming out 
but no flame!  The lit match finally warmed the cold gas coming out to the point 
that it would ignite and whoosh!  The flame ripped up and burnt a hole in the 
mosquito netting of the door of my Starflight tent (if I bring it to the KO 
you can still see the repair job I did on it and the hole!).  

I don't recall ever using the second burner and it is still shiny new 
looking.  

In my will it is to be given to the Mad Monte Dodge PCT Memorablia Museum of 
the North.  

Long live the old canister stoves!

Long may the alcohol pop can stoves rule!

Greg "Strider" Hummel