Reddit reviews MSR WhisperLite International Multifuel Backpacking Stove
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Multi-Fuel-Burns white gas, kerosene and unleaded gasolineLight and Sturdy: Lightweight stainless steel legs offer excellent durabilityCompact: Folds small and fits inside most MSR pots.Field Maintainable: Self-cleaning Shaker Jet technology and new, one-piece leg assembly allow fast cleaning and maintenance in the field.Includes: Fuel pump, windscreen, heat reflector, small-parts kit, instructions, and stuff sack. (Fuel bottle not included)/Made in Seattle, USA
I wanted to have a stove do double-duty. Especially when it came to fuel. I have the MSR Whisperlight International stove. I carry 2 fuel canisters (30oz ea). I had one back when I was backpacking and it never let me down, but sold it when I left Colorado for the midwest where camping just didnt hold up to the Rockies.
It will use Unleaded fuel. As will the bike. So, in case I get stuck somewhere with an empty bike, I can use the stove fuel to get me another 40+ miles to a gas station where I can refuel everything.I have never had any issue with the stove heating water or making soup or rice or anything else, and the burn rate on the gasoline is fairly good, I didnt even use half a tank all year last year camping.
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No matter what, it will come down to preference. Jet Boil works great, but it is quite a bit larger and you have to have special fuel canisters and all. The MSR is just what I happen to like the best and suits my needs.
It's an MSR fuel bottle for their liquid fuel camping stoves. They come in 3 different sizes, the one he's using is the 30 oz. The stoves run on white gas, kerosene and gasoline and have an excellent safety seal. Used one for my 6 month camping adventure around the US =)
Amazon has it on sale right now if you're interested
That's an incredibly interesting story!
Feel free to disregard if you don't like blunt advice, but I am just shocked a man of your experience got himself in that situation:
>I was prepared for something like this and it was always my greatest fear while working up there, so I was caching survival gear. I had 10, 3 hour fire logs, 15 gallons of fuel, tarps, rope, shovels, and ax and hatchet, ground cover, a survival kit, extra packs of hand warmers and foot warmers up there in case something like this happened...
>My thermal "Space Blanket"...
If that is your survival gear then you were extremely reckless in getting yourself into that situation, and I'm skeptical that you have the appropriate skill and knowledge to be risking getting caught in that environment -- which should be obvious to you now.
Warmth: What kind of fire logs? Unless they're something I am not familiar with, those should be ditched. They take up way more room and weight than they're worth. Replace those logs with 800+ fill down sleeping bags. Four sleeping bags for you and your passengers will weigh less and take up less space than those logs, and as I'm sure you experienced, those logs are not very effective. Down bags are extremely compressible, and if you set up your tarps(shelter) correctly and get out of the wind they will keep you warm. Space blankets reflect radiant heat (infrared radiation), considering their minimal bulk they're not a bad idea to have with you, but do not rely on them alone. With water, food, and shelter, you can stay a good sleeping bag indefinitely almost anywhere on earth.
Shelter: A single tent pole or hockey stick or anything rigid could have vastly improved your shelter. You would have been just fine inside the helicopter with the aforementioned sleeping bags.
Water/Food: 15 gallons of fuel for what? The bird I assume? I can't speak to that, but you should carry a MSR Whisperlite or similar product, you can feed it fuel from your R44. Keep it out of the wind and it will melt water and make you hot food until you run out of fuel.
Clothing: Jeans. Mountaineers call cotton "death fabric". Cotton is good at soaking up moisture and retaining it, keeping you damp. It is comfortable in the summer because of its evaporative cooling properties, which is why it kills people in the winter. Always have layers: Base, thermal, shell, and as many in between as you can. Unless you're a welder, synthetics fabrics are the best thing since sliced bread.
There have got to be ways of improving the cold weather starting of the R44. Is it the batteries getting to cold and underpowered that's the problem or the torque required to crank the engine once it reaches a certain temperature? Obviously it's a bit of both, but do you have an idea if it's one more than the other?
Call these people and ask them which sleeping bag you need: http://www.westernmountaineering.com
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I really like the sawyer water filter. Whatever you get, the best thing you can do is fill up a 'dirty water' container in the middle of the lake, and use that to refill your gravity filter. Over 5 gallons starts to get tricky to bring back into the canoe. We tend to pour the filtered water directly into a container rather than use a 'clean' bag. Pro tip - if you are boiling water for cooking, you don't need to filter it. Just use that big jug of fairly clean water you pulled from a good distance from shore.
As a pot, a 9 cup coffee peculator works really well for just boiling water. Bonus as it also acts as a peculator - heat water in another pot, then poor over the filter/grinds rather than wait for a full boil to peculate. I'll usually pack a 600ml pot that heats smaller amounts of water and doubles as my coffee cup. Nice to have a single walled cup you can set on the fire grate.
For the morning oatmeal, I just pack in a paper bowl. Easy cleanup in the fire.
Depending on how many days, a canister style stove is hard to beat for groups of four. Longer trips, or trips with more people, a white gas stove starts to work out better. There is an entire cult around building beer can stoves, but they tend to be a bit slow for 4 hungry people.
We tend to do a fair bit of freeze dried foods when we go. A long handled spoon - either from a DQ malt or something fancy titanium works nicely for eating directly out of the bag. No real cleanup.
I'm packing in an $0.88 pizza pan as an aluminum surface to cook fish if it is over the fire, an aluminum foil pouch for in the fire. Semi-disposable Tupperware works nicely to keep crackers from getting crushed in a pack.
Going in this weekend as well. Will be in the bars in Ely the Friday night before. Possibly see you in that corner of the world!
I've used one around the home for most of my life... cooking at the table is very popular in Asian cultures (Hotpot, BBQ, Shabu-Shabu), which is why you can easily find the canisters at Asian markets. But even though I have one, I've never bothered to bring it out of the house.
They use butane canisters, so they're not great when the weather gets cooler (less than 40F). The stove's ratings are also on the lower side at 7650 BTUs, and that will decrease with the temperature. In comparison, the MSR Pocket Rocket is listed as 8200 BTUs, my Coleman propane dual-burner is 15,000 BTUs and unaffected by colder weather. If I were going to buy one today, I'd consider the Camp Chef Everest which puts out 20,000 BTUs per burner. If you're actually cooking, and need to leave a pot on the stove for any length of time, dual burner stoves with built in wind screens make it so much easier.
Generally when I'm car camping, I'm cooking for several people and the big dual burner stove makes it so much easier, cooking pancakes, eggs and hash browns on one big griddle using both burners. We often have more than one dual-burner stove, but can also use our backpacking stoves and Jetboils for heating water for coffee and hot cocoa.
If there's only two of us, I can get by fine with a canister stove like the MSR PR (and Jetboil for drinks). It's a little more difficult to "cook" on an MSR PR since it's not as stable as a table-top stove, but it's much lighter to pack.
Melburnian mentions the Coleman Sportster 2 dual fuel stove. I've got an older model (40 years old?) that is sitting in the shed. It works fine (at least on white gas), but it's bulky, heavy, requires pumping (and more pumping and more pumping)... if I'm forced to pump, I'd rather bring along the MSR Whisperlite International which is lighter, more compact and also burn a variety of fuels.