I’ve got 4 MSR stoves – Whisperlite, Firefly, and an XGK multi-fuel that I haven’t used for years (been doing butane mix with a Moulder Strip in winter) and am driving a car down the Alcan to Berkeley in early November so I could toss in these items that normally I couldn’t ship to anyone. And 2-3 MSR extra fuel bottles with fuel. Expect to replace a few gaskets – I don’t know that any leak, but it has been over a decade now.
Ideally, you, or maybe a friend’s house, is near the I-5 corridor and if it’s a decent hour when I come through, we meet and say “hi” but if it’s late, I could just leave them on your porch or behind the second pine tree at your workplace office park because I’ll be driving the 3,200 miles in 4 days and need to keep moving. Departing Alaska at oh dark thirty on Thursday November 7th, passing Seattle late on the 9th (barring snowstorms or moose collisions) and Berkeley late on Sunday the 10th and around the SFBA on Monday.
And if you’d only really make use of 1 or 2, that’s fine. But if one drop-off point in SEA or PDX or SFBA could use them all or disperse them to others, that would be ideal.
Not UL gear, but if any of you are associated with a Scout troop in need of free gear, I’ve got at least one fiberfill sleeping bag (a decent 40F backpacking sleeping bag back in the day) and some classic SS pots and lids with that gold-anodized “heat exchanger” shroud thing from MSR, and maybe an expedition internal-frame pack (you know, can haul 90 pounds of gear but weighs 6-7 pounds on its own).
Wow! I’m gearing up to begin winter camping, so I’d be honored to put your classic gas stoves to good use! I’m in Portland OR!
I’ll be dropping off some beater ice axes for my nephew’s outing club in PDX. For winter camping, liquid fuels can make a lot of sense. I’ll try to inventory them this weekend and post or PM you with the particulars. If you don’t need the multi-fuel XGK (and in the US, I’d think not), the others are more user-friendly.
Got snow shoes? We now have many modern ones, but I *think* I still have a pair from REI’s rental fleet circa 1997 which work just as well as they ever did but lack the convenient quick-in/out of newer ones. But they could let you stick your toe in and gauge size (square inches), length, etc, before committing to a purchase and then you could free-cycle/PIF them down there.
I definitely have a singleton snowshoe which would be excellent for a one-legged dog musher or anyone else who has a mismatched single one.