Janne, sir, you raise some good points regarding "What is the emergency".
( From your Tea comment I will assume you are a coffee drinker and know nothing of the soul eating, mind numbing pain of not having had a cuppa for the last hour and being unable to raise the temperature of your water!!!!)
For me, its about how I have ended up in this emergency. I am not going on a 15 mile hike with just a half finished bottle of Iron Bru. I would not go out in mid winter in shorts, no matter how nice it looks first thing in the morning. If there is a chance, then take a cure. I am thinking "For the life of me, none of this wood is making a workable feather stick, my attempts at a bow drill just hurt my hands, some one loaned my lighter and walked off with it, I picked up the wrong billy can this morning and left my Hexi blocks at home, its the first wood I have been in that has no birch bark but I can still get a fire going with this".
( From your Tea comment I will assume you are a coffee drinker and know nothing of the soul eating, mind numbing pain of not having had a cuppa for the last hour and being unable to raise the temperature of your water!!!!)
For me, its about how I have ended up in this emergency. I am not going on a 15 mile hike with just a half finished bottle of Iron Bru. I would not go out in mid winter in shorts, no matter how nice it looks first thing in the morning. If there is a chance, then take a cure. I am thinking "For the life of me, none of this wood is making a workable feather stick, my attempts at a bow drill just hurt my hands, some one loaned my lighter and walked off with it, I picked up the wrong billy can this morning and left my Hexi blocks at home, its the first wood I have been in that has no birch bark but I can still get a fire going with this".