Apart from fatwood another great firestarter is the ''liquid'' resin you get in blisters on some fir trees, especially when everything around you is soaking wet (providing they are in the vicinity of course). In the pics below is a ''Grand Fir'' tree, all those little oval protrusions are blisters full of liquid resin, push the tip of your knife into the edge of the blister and liquid resin will ooze out, collect the resin with something and it makes a great firestarter (it burns fine with a blob of it on the end of a stick but you can add it to something if you wish like dead fireweed etc etc just like a cotton ball dipped into vaseline/petroleum only more natural) . I imagine the resin has lots more uses like glue etc.
The trunk of a Grand Fir tree showing lots of small blisters which are full of liquid resin.
Push the tip of your knife into the edge of blister and liquid resin will ooze out, great for firelighting.
To make use of it I had a little cook up, hogweed shoots and mashed potato (mash in other pot in pic) and a couple of fist sized bannocks.
ATB
The trunk of a Grand Fir tree showing lots of small blisters which are full of liquid resin.
Push the tip of your knife into the edge of blister and liquid resin will ooze out, great for firelighting.
To make use of it I had a little cook up, hogweed shoots and mashed potato (mash in other pot in pic) and a couple of fist sized bannocks.
ATB