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Posted by rexim on February 5, 2008 at 12:34:01 pm EST
In reply to Re: building a campfire - sometimes it's just not right posted by Ed G on February 5, 2008 at 7:39:17 am EST

I have a small, but heavy, folding woodburning stove (it does not have a fan or use batteries) which I keep in my car for emergencies and which once saved a weekend on the Lake Superior shore. I had my Whisperlite and a bottle of fuel, but had somehow left the pump assembly at home.

I collected some of small pieces of driftwood covering the beach and burned them in the folding stove to boil water for food and drink. After the meal, the firelight was warm and pleasant pleasant and the wood burned down completely to ash. One evening, as the fire died, I looked north across the lake to see the Aurora Borealis. A good stove that left no trace, apart from the ash that was quickly dissipated and the pieces of driftwood missing from the beach.

I have difficulty believing that burning the small pieces of wood that I burn in that stove, either driftwood or deadfall in heavily forested northern Michigan, can have anything more than a theoretical negative effect. However, I hate to see the lower branches broken from trees in the more popular camping areas and do agree that if everyone converted to wood, there would be a definite problem in that regard.

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