Decided to take advantage of Field and Trek's GoldCard-holders 20% discount night and got me a little early pressie for Xmas....
An MSR Pocket Rocket! Wahooo! And a nice pair of gloves to keep my hands warm this winter (and hopefully for the next few winters)! :-) The idea is to carry the MSR-PR for hot drink making on day hikes and leave the heavier Whisperlite for base cooking and expeditions.
Nick P.S. Forgot to get a gas canister, does using a non-MSR can really matter?
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Decided to take advantage of Field and Trek's GoldCard-holders 20% discount night and got me a little early pressie for Xmas....
An MSR Pocket Rocket! Wahooo! And a nice pair of gloves to keep my hands warm this winter (and hopefully for the next few winters)! :-) The idea is to carry the MSR-PR for hot drink making on day hikes and leave the heavier Whisperlite for base cooking and expeditions.
Nick P.S. Forgot to get a gas canister, does using a non-MSR can really matter?
"Nick Pedley" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Decided to take advantage of Field and Trek's GoldCard-holders 20%
discount
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night and got me a little early pressie for Xmas....
An MSR Pocket Rocket! Wahooo! And a nice pair of gloves to keep my hands warm this winter (and hopefully for the next few winters)! :-) The idea is to carry the MSR-PR for hot drink making on day hikes and
leave
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the heavier Whisperlite for base cooking and expeditions.
Nick P.S. Forgot to get a gas canister, does using a non-MSR can really matter?
Not at all. I didn't even know MSR did gas. heh.
My Pocket Rocket has been everywhere with me. From cooking breakfast, lunch and dinner in Chamonix to making a quick brew on Blencathra. There's no feeling quite as smug as being on the summit in January, it's -5, everyone is shivering, trying to eat frozen butties and you're wafting aromas of hot Stag chilli through the still air. ;o)
"Nick Pedley" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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An MSR Pocket Rocket! P.S. Forgot to get a gas canister, does using a non-MSR can really
matter?
### essentially no.....BUT 🙂 I've heard of several cases where the Pock Rock hasn't functioned with certain canisters. I was out in an event where a fellow competitor, wet, cold and hungry, screwed his PR on to a canister and it wouldn't deliver gas. I've heard this from other sources too and I have a new Coleman canister that the PR won't work on but the MSR Superfly works OK on it. I also have a couple of the Snow Peak canisters that F&T sell and there's a slight escape of gas from these when I connect and disconnect. The word is to try the PR on the canister before you take it out for real. Otherwise it's a terrific little stove. Cheers, Graham
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