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marky
climber
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 19, 2005 - 10:57am PT
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I'll be moving around South America a bit in January/February, jumping off from either Santiago, Buenos Aires, or Mendoza and working south to El Chalten. A buddy said that getting decent fuel for his MSR stove was very difficult. Does anyone know where quality fuel can be bought, or whether fuel can somehow be shipped-in-advance?
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Sep 19, 2005 - 11:08am PT
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I used my Whisperlite International when in Mexico climbing volcanos, it burns both whitegas and kerosine with a change of the jet...
It's not a finesse stove (basically it has two settings: off and blow-torch) and the a lot of other ideosyncracies. My wife made me get a "safer" stove for our backpack trips. But if you are mostly melting snow and boiling water, it does the trick.
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Dave
Mountain climber
the ANTI-fresno
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Sep 19, 2005 - 11:08am PT
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In Ecuador it was impossible to find white gas. They just don't make it / import it. Everyone uses propane, and you could find cartidges for isobutane-style stoves in backpacking/camping shops. We used high-octane gasoline for our multi-fuel backpacking stove with some success, but the huts had propane cook stoves so we didn't need to use backpacking stoves too much.
Good luck.
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TradIsGood
Trad climber
Gunks end of country
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Sep 19, 2005 - 11:38am PT
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You could try going to local civil aviation airport and get some Jet-A and try it before you go. It is kerosene based fuel, with known freezing point, ...
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ryanb
climber
Seattle, WA
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Sep 19, 2005 - 12:04pm PT
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White gas was easy to find in every hardware store in juarez. Just ask for benecina blanca and they will fill you up a soda bottel.
I took a wisperlight international too. Great stove.
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darod
Trad climber
New York
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Sep 19, 2005 - 02:54pm PT
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You won't have a problem finding white gas in Santiago and most bigger cities in Chile. As mentioned above, "bencina blanca" is what you're looking for, and can be easely found in hardware stores, some supermarkets, gas stations, etc.
If going down to patagonia, you'll find it without a problem in Puerto Natales. I suppose Chalten must be the same.
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marky
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 19, 2005 - 03:15pm PT
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thanks for the feedback, which is very encouraging. the friend of mine who suggested difficulties encountered his on a trip to Aconcagua. Maybe there was a supply shortage or something, but he reported being able to buy only low-quality fuel.
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Lambone
Ice climber
Ashland, Or
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Sep 19, 2005 - 03:20pm PT
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Marky, I spent a month in Mendoza last fall and did some climbing in the Cordon del Plata (which is a great warm-up for Acouncagua).
You can get white gas and Butane canisters very easily at any of the many climbing shops. El Refugio in the Penotonal (sp?) was my favorite shop to visit and I made some firends there to climb with, they are climbers...which is not allays the case in some shops.
After Mendoza we wen't down to Puerto Natales in Chile and had no trouble getting butane for our stove (Primus multi-fuel). We spent a bunch of money on the Primus before we left because we didn't know if butane was available, but should have just taken our trusty MSR Pocket Rocket.
have fun!
FYI- It may be more expensive to go from Chile into Argentina, so you may want to fly into Buenos Ares. We had to pay a tax of $100 US each to fly from Mendoza into Santiago.
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