>>2820800>im sure the tiny lighter is going to totally wreck your pack>tiny lighterweren't you just saying that that tiny lighter needed to be carried in a pot to have any chance of working? Though I'll admit that this is a bic-specific problem,that most other cheap lighters don't have.
>put it under your armpitBeen there, tried that, doesn't work. I think I wrote that elsewhere itt already, but I've literally been in a situation where I had to use my emergency stash of wax-covered matches just to light an alcohol stove, because the butane lighter wouldn't light. Been using gasoline since, with absolutely no problems.
>everyone carries exactly two lighters, and they're always enoughStill a daytripper, huh? Try doing a two-week winter trip with just two lighters. For extra toughtness, do it somewhere where you can't light a wood fire, but have to light your stove every time you want to melt some snow or warm a meal.
Last time I did that, a fresh refill on my gasoline lighter lasted a little less than a night. The same lighter lasts about as long as a bic-sized butane lighter in warm weather, suggesting that I would have had to carry ~16-20 butane lighters for that two-week trip, if they worked in the cold. With disposable bics, that'd be around 10€ - with gasoline, or butane refills, it's 3,5€. 7€ difference. Throughout a year, that's 50-100€ for me. Not much, but enough that I could literally buy a new gasoline lighter every six months and still be cheaper than with bics.
