there's been a few threads on here about fashion, polish army tents, hammocks etc and it got me to wondering about following trends.
i'd never made a feather stick or split wood in the wild for a fire until i joined this site. i've learnt loads of great stuff, but when i was in the woods last night i used none of the techniques i've picked up in the last year.
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it had rained for days, and rained as i arrived and rained all night and rained when i relit the fire the next day.
before i started here, i always lit the classic twig-teepee fire, and if you look at the photo i've got wood drying around the edge, including some gathered from the floor, but only the fattest bits are sawn (i never used to carry a saw), are we losing fire management skills and becoming slaves to a one technique approach?
i'd never made a feather stick or split wood in the wild for a fire until i joined this site. i've learnt loads of great stuff, but when i was in the woods last night i used none of the techniques i've picked up in the last year.
1
it had rained for days, and rained as i arrived and rained all night and rained when i relit the fire the next day.
before i started here, i always lit the classic twig-teepee fire, and if you look at the photo i've got wood drying around the edge, including some gathered from the floor, but only the fattest bits are sawn (i never used to carry a saw), are we losing fire management skills and becoming slaves to a one technique approach?