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Posted by overmywaders on February 17, 2008 at 7:43:36 pm EST
In reply to building a campfire - sometimes it's just not right posted by bheiser1 on September 11, 2007 at 7:08:52 pm EDT

...and sometimes, it's just right.

I don't mind building a small, friendly fire by a stream when I am fishing; something to heat some water for tea or cook a fresh trout. But you will never know after I have moved on that there had been a fire. To quote from myself:
"I may roll a streamside stone aside and build the fire in the cavity, or I'll cut a rectangle of turf out of the bankside grass and start the fire in the available hole. Either way, when I'm done cooking my lunchtime trout, should I have been so fortunate and hungry, and enjoying my tea (coffee requires cream, I take tea black), the embers are drowned and the stone or sod replaced. No evidence of my pleasant sojourn remains." see http://overmywaders.com/index.php?friendlyfire

Now, how does my fire impact anyone else? The twigs I used are now carbon - the cycle was somewhat accelerated - unseen, non-polluting, trapped underground.

If I am hiking/camping for an extended period, I'll take my Svea 123 and a pint of white gas. But if I'm going to be in the woods away from a white gas supply, I will save the stove for "special occasions"; e.g., when I am desperately in need of a cup of tea and my hands are too cold to pull a fire together, and sometimes, I just like the roar of the stove :)

Warmest regards,

Reed
www.overmywaders.com

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