re: Camping fire starter

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Fritos

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Saw that hack on one of those survival shows and it worked great, but made me wonder about the wisdom of ever eating corn chips again.

Badlands was hot a hell, driving up to it is was low 80's and flat land all around, when I go there is was close to 100 and hilly, but amazing to see. Driving up and down Pikes Peak was butt puckering. I also did Rushmore, Yellowstone, Hoover, Grand Canyon, Horeshoe Bend and a ton of other national parks.

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What are those individual grilling grates and what all did you eat? What size are they?

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Smaller size for cooking and the larger size for camp fire. Easy set up.

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Tried this tent for the first time and it sets up in under two minutes.



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If you are close to any pine trees get some pine cones and let them dry out.

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Both my boys are in a scout group, and we had a whole lesson one week about fire starters. Meetings are generally short, and we could have probably knocked out the different ways to stack logs and starting them in one week, but we spread it out over two. I think mainly so we could teach them a few different methods on homemade firestarters one week, and let them make a few different ones and actually use them the following week.

The favorite was TP tubes stuffed with dryer lint, second was a pine cone, third was the cotton balls and vaseline, and last was homemade votive style candles.

Whenever I take my boys camping, I give them a bucket and tell them to fill it up with pine cones and then we can make s'mores. Amazing how fast they bring back 5 gallons of pine cones. It has also let me teach them that the larger ones that are opened up are ideal, and the smaller ones that haven't don't really do anything. A half dozen or so big open cones and one match is usually all it takes to get the fire going if the ground hasn't been soaked.