RE: [Philmont]: Philmont Provided Equipment

> From: Garrett, Russ
> Last year we carried MSR stoves requiring liquid fuel. The fuel from
> Philmont was free as it was surplus from crews that had just
> come off the
> trail and had turned it back in in order to avoid dumping.
> The fuel worked
> well the entire trip. I think we added one bottle during the
> trek and, as
> it turned out, we didn't actually need it so we turned it in
> at basecamp for the next crew to use for free.
>
Please, strip off the excess when replying, some of us have slow
connections!
A scout is courteous!

Anyway, we took two MSR Whisperlites and two bottles of fuel (1 l).

We paid $1 at the pack rental at CHQ to fill one bottle.

When we used that up, we paid $1 at the commissary to refill it.

There weren't a lot of crews around and no real extras. There were
extra cannisters for compressed gas stoves, but no extra white gas
for us whisperlite users. We'd heard about
having to buy a whole container of fuel to refill from, but that was not
what we ran into this summer, they were refilling at commissaries.

We could easily have made the trek with just two (one liter) bottles
of fuel, but the boys wasted about three days worth one night before
 they really learned how to use the stove (shows how much we adults
were doing for them on our training hikes!). One of the stoves failed
and though I field stripped it and got it going again, it wouldn't stop
flaring up and that used up a lot of fuel without a lot of heating (not
to mention making the outside of the pot filthy). Hopefully cleaning
it up at home will resolve that problem.

Since we could have campfires (yay! they reinstituted the campfire
after 8-6) we could have heated our water over the open fire, I suppose.

Regards
Don Roberts
05 808-K

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Received on Thu Sep 1 09:39:35 2005