Hey all,
Today I did a little day hike up to Clark's Ferry Shelter. After reaching the top of the ridge I noticed that the temperature hovered around 20F this morning. I attempted to make myself some lunch after arriving at the shelter but the fuel would not burn. With me, I carried the denatured alcohol you find in hardware stores in the large square tin containers at the hardware store. I believe it's used for for boats and whatnot. Anyway, I wonder if it was just the low temperature that affected my less than successful lunch today? Perhaps a different type of alcohol works better below freezing?
I picked up some HEET in the yellow container. It seems a lot of people use that stuff so I hope that'll solve my problem. It was kind of disappointing hauling back a ziplock bag filled with frozen noodles and tuna. Fail.
By the way, I have tested my stove set up. I have a stove from www.bottlestoves.com (sweet deal) that has worked fine on test runs. It couples nicely with my Optimus Terra weekender cookset ordinarly.
Thanks!