[philmont] Fuel Options

If buying a new stove for Philmont, I'd recommend a durable white gas or flexfuel backpacker. If I already had a canister stove of some sort and didn't have, or was more comfortable with it than a white gas stove than I'd take it.

Fuel planning is essential, including understanding performance at the altitudes you will visit. You do have options. Certainly you will need to arrange to have, at the ranch, fuel in sufficent quantity for the trek. Getting it there may, in and of itself, pose challenges but I'll leave that as an exercise to others. Once at the ranch you do have the option of asking your ranger to have 'extra' fuel (that you provide) positioned at one of your commissary stops just as you would with food for those with special dietary requirements. I suppose you could be turned down, and forced to carry it, but I've not heard of this happening.

YIS
Jim

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