This time of year [ March/April] fuel question

[Moondog55]

Up the high plains where it isn't likely to get below 10C would you use canister mixed gas or the cheaper butane hairspray bottles?
Packing my bag now and wondering if I should take advantage of the Bunnings price on a 6-pack of butane
I've got the adaptor already and I use a hairspray stove for car camping but down to only a couple of bottles. So saving the more expensive canisters for winter

[Moondog55]

Well to answer my own question the hairspray canisters work fine with the remote stove.
However I am back home in Geelong
Car - 0-
Kangaroo 1
Not a total write off but close.
I was so busy avoiding all the 6 month old Sambar I hit the damned 'roo that jumped in front of me and just stood there, luckilly I was only doing about 60 when I slammed the brakes on but I still hit hard enough to kill it

[Tortoise]

Good to hear the gas worked, Moondog. But for the roo and the car.

[Moondog55]

I've been driving the Falls Creek road for almost 50 years, must have driven up and down thousands of times [ remember I lived up there for eight years summer and winter] I have never seen so many Sambar

[Biggles]

Propane/butane mix canisters have worked unfailingly for me whether bushwalking, bicycle touring or car-based camping.

Winter temps in the alps certainly can dip below minus 10°c in places like Camp Creek nr Cleve Cole Hut!

Curious about the roo mention.

I have not seen deer or roos recently. Was up there on the long weekend with 3,600 others (9-10th) for the Peaks Challenge 235km road ride and not a single 'roo or deer seen anywhere, not even out Friday night burble down to Falls Creek (the waterfall); on the ride down from Falls, over Tawonga Gap, up Hotham, into Dinner Plain...down Anglers Rest — nothing at all on the roads other than minor rock falls at Hotham... . All access roads to Falls were closed from 3.00am Sunday; same with access to Mount Hotham and down to Anglers Rest; still no roos. Maybe the bouncy things got the message that Russian roulette with 3,600 very high speed cyclists wouldn't be a good idea...

[Moondog55]

%That's interesting, the deer are usually thicker on the ground over the Bright side but this trip there were heaps. Hairspray butane canisters not the squat propane mix this trip