Originally Posted by
Trevtassie
Big fan now of gas stoves with a hose and a preheat tube. Much lower center of gravity, you can use a wrap around heat shield and you can invert the canister to feed liquid gas when it's cold. Plus if you are feeling economical you can use an adapter and those cheap horizontal butane cartridges.
Originally Posted by
staehpj1
Those look interesting. I can see a number of advantages over my old Pocket Rocket and a couple small disadvantages.
How easily available are the cheap butane cartridges when on the road? ....
My tour in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island last summer I stayed at a mix of private camp grounds (RV parks) and Provincial or National Parks. Many of the private parks sold the tall skinny butane cartridges but did not sell the threaded ones that most of us need. I bought a threaded canister at Canadian Tire and at MEC in Halifax, but otherwise never saw them for sale anywhere.
I was thinking last summer that perhaps I should have done the same thing Trevtassie suggested, use a stove on a hose like that with an adapter so that it would be easier to obtain canisters.
I picked up one of these several years ago, the hose leaked so did not use it, but never got around to returning it.
https://www.rei.com/product/777514/b...ster-converter
Those have been out of production now for several years. The one that leaked, I have since fixed it thinking that I might try that option on my next tour if I might camp a lot in RV parks.
I did get an adapter for the tall butane cans so that I could use that remote stand with a regular butane stove like an MSR or Primus. But the stove would not have the pre-heat tube Trevtassie cited, so you probably can't lay the canister on the side.
In other words, I was thinking about it, have the stuff to do it, but have not tried it yet. That said, if I am not flying anywhere I usually use liquid fuel stove instead.