I havent started a fire in over a week and a half. I went outside and as the night began to fall fast, I squeezed one in. Knowing exactly where to get what I needed and having some wood stowed under my Oilskin Lean-To, I got to work to test the material that I kept dry under it. Sure enough, within 3 scrapes, my tinder bundle caught flame and the sugar maple shavings kept it going and the dried vine twigs I placed on top caught nicely. Then, a quartered 2 log on that and within 2 minutes I had a sustainable fire. Oh sure, the haters will gripe thats not survival! you had the wood dry already! Dorks. That IS survival. When you have the opportunity to cache some good material and (no pun intended) save it for a rainy day, you do it so that when the need arises, youre not One-Stick-Fireing-it. Survival isnt about some stupid set of conditions. Its not always about working from a position of desperation or some self-test. Survival also is about PREParation and and is about doing what you can to not find yourself in a situation where you have to scavenge for dry wood when you need it most; AKA The Next Fire. So, the plan I set into motion almost a month ago (and yes, I did actually plan this), to set-up my 5X7 tarp, to allow mother nature to throw everything she had at it and to stow some of my good firestarting material worked out well in this case. If I needed it, it was there. But then again, at that point, thats not just surviving... thats thriving fellas. ;)
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 01:15:50 +0000
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