Keeping a campfire going?

The best way to light a fire is to get a bundle of dry twigs/mosses, and wrap it in a piece of birchbark (or something similar) in a cone-fasion, so that after you catch the ember from your fire-starting device, you can blow through the cone, causing the ember to catch onto the fluff/dry twigs/crushed bark, etc...

To keep it going, lay the base with smaller twigs in a dry area, and use the larger logs in either a teepee fasion, or a log-cabin design, making sure there is adequate space for airflow (remember the fire triange, heat - fuel - oxygen. Keep on adding dry (DRY IS IMPORTANT) logs onto the top as it burns down.

A good place to get dry wood is the lower dead branches of trees - punkwood (rotten wood) also catches really well, but doesn't burn for too long.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I used to be in boy scouts - and I've done desert and winter survival courses. The winter course was pretty cool, 24 hours in the bush - building shelter and fire and shit.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

lol, grass fire!

Pretty much - when you're out in the bush, the trick is to think small to get the fire started, and burn progressivly larger. If you need to be rescued, start a forest fire if you have to. Also remember that DRY wood burns best - wet wood will sizzle and smoke for hours before actually burning and catching a flame. Dead or rotten wood is flammable, as are most barks, but remember, the key is DRY.

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Nod - but for this kind of stuff, read "the psychology of wilderness survival" by Dr. Gino Ferri (haha, his name is awesome)

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.