[at-l] Re:Bottles...THANKS!

[WenchAT03 at comcast.net (Teresa)]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Linda Patton" <lpatton@mailer.fsu.edu>


> WOW...Youse guys are good.  So I wrap it in duct tape for strength and I
> label it so it's not mistaken for water, and I put it in a ziploc for good
> measure.  And alcohol won't eat through plastic.  Got it.

I started with a Pepsi bottle and switched to a Gatorade bottle.  It seemed
that the Gatorade bottle lid stuck with the alcohol in it.  There were a few
times that it was very difficult to open.  (And I was the one that closed
it.)  I saw someone else toward the beginning of the hike that had the same
problem, but he had to cut the top off.  I never had to do that.  Don't know
why I switched bottles in the first place....

>Now if I can
> just figure out how to center the big pot on the teeny soda can stove so's
> it (the pot) don't tip over again like the first time I tried it.  (It
> also knocked over the LIT stove and there was some burnin' alcohol runnin'
> around.  I just love trying new equipment, don't you?)  =:O
> ~~eArThworm

Due miscommunication with myself  :-)  I "forgot" parts of my stove when I
started my hike.  Unimportant things like pot stand and windscreen.  I used
rocks as a pot stand and partial windscreen for the first 4 days.  It
worked, but I was glad to have the whole set up from Neels Gap on.  Just
goes to show, many things will work.

:-)
Oops Wench