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| Subject: Re: Which cooking stove for Peru, Bolivia??
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Posted on: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 08:00:27 PDT
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For Perú , I suggest white gas. Ask on any Hardware store for "Bencina"
Enrique
"Fred" wrote in message
news:3F00F09B.1F32592F@videotron.ca...
> Steve wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am goig on a backpacking trip to Peru and Bolivia for two months and
> > will be trekking in the fairly high andes, probably about 6000m max. I
> > was wondering if camping gas was the best type of fuel to use for a
> > camping stove or should I use a petrol or kerosene stove???
> >
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> When I was in Bolivia (4 years ago) I was told it was rather difficult to
> find gasolina blanca so I didn't bother and bought lead-free gas instead.
> Worked well up to 5100m in my Primus multi-fuel stove.
>
> You might want to post your question on rec.backcountry and rec.climbing
> too.
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> Have a nice trip,
>
> --
>
> Marc from Quebec
> http://pages.infinit.net/emah
> Home of the Rec.climbers' Personnal Pages Directory
> and the Climbing in Québec Page.
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