CO poisoning reminder...

[Litehiker]

Be extremely careful about cooking inside your tent or camper without very good ventilation.

CO poisoning can have a rapid onset and, if solo camping, you may never know you have been poisoned until you meet St. Peter. Every camper should have a CO alarm with fresh Li-ion batteries every fall. In a tent "cook fast" and "ventilate like he!!".

CO poisoning takes DAYS to get out of your system, even with pure O2 and hyperbaric chamber treatment. If you are really "off" physically the day after cooking in a tent of camper it may be CO poisoning that has gone unnoticed.

Eric B.

 

[nvschütze]

I'd like to hear what Vitas Gerulaitis says about it...

 

[manitou]

It also has a very long half life in which you can get some today, a little tomorrow, a bit more the next day, then all of a sudden you wake up dead one morning.

 

[Litehiker]

Yep manitou, you'll accumulate CO and wake up to SEE Manitou! (If you are a Cree Indian, that is)

Eric B.