Float it.
That was good Scope.
If noticing fuel getting low cook over a fire a few nights. For just such ocassions I like throwing into every resupply cook/no cook food, longer/shorter cook time foods, and low boiled water quantity required foods. It's not going to kill me having cold or hot oatmeal for bfast.
Yes.Originally Posted by JAK
An enterprising hiker once put graduated marks on trek pole.
When balanced on a particular mark, with cannister in handloop, the mark indicated cannister wt.
Then the naysayers explained that msr has marks on cannister for floating it, and that was easier.
Three times a day for two people? Bring a couple of 8oz canisters.
When I run out of fuel, well, that’s what Snicker bars are for, but I can guess pretty close to where I’m at by knowing where I been with regards to my cook times.
Uh oh. He says he's bringing a balance scale for weighing...ahem, what he calls fuel.
Become an UL gram weenie. When I'm dialed in rollin with a 12-13 lb thru hike kit 5 days consumables included I can tell to within a burn how much fuel is in a 4 oz can just by having it alone in my hand. Unbeknownst to me after I put my pack down take a 1.4 oz energy bar from my pack and I can tell the wt has changed. Seriously.
No one has punked me yet surreptitiously hiding a railroad spike or rock in my pack.
We once put lead shot in the tubular frame of a scout leaders pack....and rocks n the pack. He was slightly pissed at end of trek when was revealed. He carried a couple pounds for 50 mi.
The best extra carry punk of all time has to be George Kennedy slipping an Olympia sixer into Clint Eastwood's pack to haul to the top of the Totem Pole in Monument Valley in the movie the Eiger Sanction. Eastwood and Kennedy played it perfectly.
Still enjoy that scene although the movie was really before my time.
My solution is to carry one Esbit tab in my pack. If I run out of fuel I know that I have enough for one more hot meal, usually enough to get me to that next planned resupply.
Sounds like you're doing plenty of practice and research. Still, bring the larger one and put a spare small canister in her pack.
I get about a week out of one small canister, cooking for myself, two boils a day. Coffee in the morning, tea and knorr or something similar for dinner.
So I bring a large canister. I'd rather not run out AND it's wider - more stable. and it nests in either pot I may use, along with the stove. As has been said, when you get out in the wind, boiling ice cold water, you'll likely use more fuel than your at-home testing.
OOps, forgot I was in the ultralight section.
I like the float it idea to check how much fuel is left. Excellent.
Yes. To punk an ultralight hiker an acorn will do.
yes, enough time in the woods the mind will play tricks
If you run out of fuel there are backup strategies.
I took a mostly-empty canister on a quick trip a few weeks ago just to use up the remaining fuel and ran out when it turned out I needed to melt snow for water. It turned into an opportunity to practice building a fire in the snow with wet wood.
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The Five Basic Principles of Going Lighter ~ Cam "Swami" Honan of OZ
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