Originally Posted By hikerduane
A fellow stovie from CCS, took a pic of a store in Alaska like you describe, a good selection of fuel types.


I've been cycling and hiking in AK and supplies vary - unleaded fuel is everywhere though. And overseas (Peru, Slovenia, Nepal, Burma), you'd better have something that can burn diesel. I hate burning diesel but I like having the ability.

Originally Posted By lori
Alcohol stove - runs with yellow bottle HEET or denatured, or Everclear if you can afford it. Much simpler than the Whisperlite Internationale where you have all the different pieces/parts to swap jets when you swap fuel.


I have a Trangia alcohol stove and it is really simple. I bought a bottle of generic "HEET" from some discount store and it didn't burn worth a crap. I thought that stuff was all the same but apparently not. I'll have to get some name-brand HEET and give it another go.