In fact, being raised in a warm, flat place I was happy to go someplace with snow and hills and mountains not too far away. Once I learned how to dress and to camp comfortably in the cold I really enjoyed it. Learned a whole bunch more when I got into mountaineering some years later.
I used white gas happily for a long time, but it was my frustration with trying to use a MSR Reactor in the cold that spurred me to come up with an easy way to get canister stoves to work in very cold temps without having to use a water bath or keep the canister in my sleeping bag. Yes, I know it's just a variation on the heat shunt concept but the copper strip is a simple trick that works amazingly well. A couple of mornings ago it was about 7°F and I just fired up the stove as if it were a 70°F summer morning.
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