Keeping a campfire going?

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Sadly, Girl Scouts (for the entire 2 weeks I was one) never wanted to teach us USEFUL things. They would rather have taught us how to brush our hair into perfect styles than teach us what the Boys Scouts ever learned.

Yup, the Girl Scouts SUCK. My sister was in it and the only thing they'd teach her was how to sell cookies...

Lucky for me, I'm not a girl so I got to join the Boy Scouts, and they teach you how to be a pyro!

Anyway, I have to agree with other posters, the log cabin stlye is the way to go. The way I do it, I use fairly large logs for the outside frame (the 4 sides of the cabin) but put smaller kindling across the middle. Remember, heat rises, so start with smaller sticks toward the ground and build with bigger logs the higher up you go. I don't know if that makes any sense or not, this is one of those things that is easy to show someone, but not easy to put into words...

Flint and Steel, it's not easy, but it's very rewarding, knowing that you can actually start a fire without gas (we called it "scout water" back in the day). I found that there are 2 things that help ALOT when you use flint and steel:

#1: Twine. Take a strand of twine and pull it apart, then clump it into a "nest" to catch sparks. Have your cabin already built so when you get the twine started you can move it to the cabin right away (before it goes out and you have to start over).

#2: Lint. Collect the lint from your dryer, and use that the same way you'd use twine.

How ya doing, buddy?