How do you must of judge how much gas you need for a trip? Is there some formula you all use based off how many meals x how much water needs to be boiled?

Thanks once again everyone

upnorth...

We used a MSR Whisperlite every meal and boiled most of our cooking water on it....By cooking water, I mean the coffee and cocoa, the vegtables and spagetti, and all of the dish water.

We used a standard cook kit with the pots that stack inside each other.. the big outside one was always filled for the dishes and the the coffee pot and the smaller ones were used w/filtered water to be used for food.

We used (1) 33 oz MSR bottle and about a 1/3 of the other one--(we brought 2 along) our trip was 6 days---about 10 meals and a couple extra pots for evening cocoa....

Hope that gives you an idea of gas consumption...

Woodpecker

What kind of stove do you have.

I use a two burner older stove and a newer Apex stove. I am currently experimenting to get fuel usage. I did not find useful information on these stove because conditions vary. Right now I am going through and cooking meals using water that is from the refrigerator so it approximates cold water from the lakes. I usually cook fresh foods not freeze dried. My family loves my experiments(insert sarcasm here). I would be happy to share the results.

Hey,
You can do a search over on www.quietjourney.com. They have both some fuel consumption figures for various stoves, and personal experience. I did a 6 day Quetico trip in early June. I used less than a liter with a whisperlight. I'm very carefull with fuel and didn't use hot water to clean the dishes on a couple of nights. I was with my son and he is anything but fussy. I brought 2 MSR fuel bottles in addition to the 1liter sig bottle I used so I had alot left over. Its a judgement call and I guess most of us would er on the side of too much rather than too little. Also depends on how much you dislike trying to cook over a wood fire. Good luck,Frogge.