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David Caudwell
14/05/10 20:14
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At the end of May I am due to be making an independent birding trip to NE Turkey and Georgia involving wild camping in the Pontic Alps and the Caucasus. My problem is I can't find any information on fuel availability for these regions and I'm hoping someone on the forum will be able to advise me! I have a screw fit Primus Micron Ti and am hoping that I'll be able to get canisters for this or at least use Camping Gaz with an adapter. Or would I be better off with my Whisperlite multi-fuel?
Any help much appreciated!
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GOF
14/05/10 21:32

I presume what you mean by camping gas is the puncture cylinders?

Apart from that...no help to you at all apart from bumping this back up the list

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David Caudwell
14/05/10 21:46
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Thanks Simon! Yep, it's the traditional blue puncture canisters I'm thinking of. It would be so much easier if I could at least get hold of these - burning unleaded is smelly & dirty & unpleasant...but if needs must!
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GOF
14/05/10 21:56
why not take a honey stove, or something like that?
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David Caudwell
11/06/10 20:35
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Just in case this is of any use to anyone else...
I've just returned from a fabulous trip to E. Turkey & Georgia and can report that, while puncture-type Campingaz cartridges were easily found at camping shops in Trabzon on the Turkish Black Sea Coast, I was eventually able to find push-fit Campingaz cartridges in some of the numerous fishing/hunting stores on the main shopping street of the town. I used these with my screw-fit stove in combination with the Markill adaptor available from Backpackinglight:
http://www.backpackinglight.co.uk/product152.asp
Ironically, having felt so triumphant after scoring push-fit cartridges in Trabzon, I arrived in Kazbegi in the Caucasus a few days later to find screw-fit Coleman gas cartridges sitting smugly on the counter of the small tea/snack/information stall on the main street, as if to say "What's the problem?!"
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