Okay, this barely qualifies as having any Vanagon content whatsoever but
here goes anyway: Mrs Squirrel and I use BBQ/fireplace lighters like the
Scripto Aim N Flame* when camping because the long snoots are useful for
lighting the stove and essential for poking into and lighting mantle-type
oil lanterns. For most of the year they work just fine, but this winter
I've been spending the occasional night up at 7,000 feet, where the piezo
ignitors commonly used on those lighters start not working so good, and
where the below-freezing temps reduce the pressure of the butane or
whatever fuel is in them. In short, they click and they click and no flame
comes out.

I could use wooden kitchen matches, but they are a bit messy and smell
kinda stinky (he said, fastidiously).

So I'm curious to know if any of you folk who live in the high places and
cold weathers have anything which works real good and is pokeable (for
them lanterns)?

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* I find the statement on Scripto's website
(http://www.scriptousa.com/lighters.html) that "Whether appearing on a TV
show or at your local campfire or barbecue, Aim N Flame is instantly
recognizable" to be vaguely troubling. They crave attention? It never
occurred to me that the Aim N Flame might want to be recognized. How much
more about the secret inner emotional world of the Aim N Flame do I not
know about? What if we have to start worrying about the feelings of all
our lighters?

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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR