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Re: [at-l] Zzip Ztove
- Subject: Re: [at-l] Zzip Ztove
- From: Robert and Catherine Rubin <rhymworm%40mindspring%2Ecom>
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 13:05:17 -0400 (EDT)
>> I wonder how well a Zip stove would work on a thru-hike. Has anyone used
>> it on a thru-hike? If so, what were your experiences with it?
>
>Although I have not carried one on a thru-hike, they would work fine. I did
>note in the book The New Applachain Hiker (or some such title) that this stove
>often went un-fired when there was a gas stove going nearby. Collecting fuel -
>dry fuel - is not too difficult, but was often not done.
I only ran into two thru-hikers on the trail this summer who used the Zzip.
One of them, Whistler, got rid of his at Damascus--he'd had too much
trouble with it during extended rainy periods. Another, Mike Without
Laura, used his the whole way, and said it only failed him at one very wet
campsite, where no dry tinder at all could be found. But he started his
thruhike in late May, so didn't encounter spring rains in the South.
--Robert
(Rhymin' Worm -- GA > ME '97)
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