When I went out with the mushers, we threw in our frozen vacuum packed food in the very hot (maybe not quite boiling) water.

I was just curious, because mushers are out in weather that the rest of us just stay inside for and none that I've met carry anything but the alcohol dog cookers... Perhaps there isn't a stove that takes other fuel _large_ enough to bother with.

Most mushers (and their dogs) take off the summer and don't run. The dogs overheat in anything above freezing for the most part.

Way to much thinking today