Re: [Philmont]: White Gas

Lucky it was "just" contaminated and wouldn't burn - instead of being
substituted with something that would have gone "boom" in a stove. I
shudder to think....

Gary Gibbs wrote:
> Our crew also got bad fuel in August 2001. A Baldy Camp storage tank turned
> out to be the source of the bad fuel. It wasn't Philmont's fault,
> however -- their supplier refilled the tank with the contaminated fuel. It
> just did not burn! We burned the remainder of our base camp fuel, and it
> lasted long enough to get us to the Ute Gulch Commissary. There, the staff
> purged the bad fuel and replaced it free of charge, with their only comment
> being, "Another crew with bad fuel!"
>
> A small lesson here: it pays to refill and test before you're totally out of
> known good fuel. The scouts avoided the opportunity to learn a much bigger
> (and more interesting) lesson: how to prepare the available food, frustrated
> and tempted by wood fuel everywhere, with a no-fire ban in effect. I
> remember learning that lesson at age 13, when my dad and I were camping in
> northern Quebec and he handed me an unopened can of green peas for dinner:
> a scout's ability to eat cold food rises proportionally with the hunger only
> a teenager experiences. That's the long way to say it; my dad summed it up
> in a word: COPE.
>
> Gary Gibbs
> Troop 1001
> Birmingham, Michigan
>

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Received on Mon Feb 23 16:35:42 2004