CAMPFIRE

  1. What are the regulations?
  2. Collect all of your fire building supplies
  3. Cover or tie back hair
  4. Establish a proper wood-pile
  5. Have fire fighting equipment on hand
  6. Clear the ground in 6-foot radius
  7. Create a fire ring
  8. Make an “A” or “V” frame of logs
  9. Add tinder (smaller than your pinkie)
  10. Add fire starter
  11. Light fire

12. Add kindling (smaller than thumb, snap!)

13. Watch as flames build

  1. Add fuel (larger than thumb)
  2. Extinguish fire

With Dirt

a. let fire die

b. separate burning pieces, keep in ring

c. pour dirt over coals to smother, stir

d. continue till cold while holding hand over

With Water

  1. wet area around fire
  2. sprinkle water on fire, don’t pour
  3. spread out coals with a stick
  4. sprinkle again

e. continue till soaking wet ashes

f. continue till cold while holding hand over

17. Leave no Trace

replace sod, look as if no one has been there

The burning qualities of wood

Beachwood fires are bright and clear,

If the logs are kept a year.

Chestnut's only good, they say,

If for long its laid away.

Birch and fir logs burn too fast,

Blaze up bright and do not last.

Elm wood burns like a churchyard mold,

Even the very flames are cold.

Poplar gives a bitter smoke,

Fills your eyes and makes you choke.

Apple wood will scent your room

With an incense like perfume.

Oak and maple, if dry and old,

Keep away the winter cold.

But ash wood wet and ash wood dry,

A king shall warm his slippers by.

Author unknown

CAMPFIRE

  1. What are the regulations?
  2. Collect all of your fire building supplies
  3. Cover or tie back hair
  4. Establish a proper wood-pile
  5. Have fire fighting equipment on hand
  6. Clear the ground in 6-foot radius
  7. Create a fire ring
  8. Make an “A” or “V” frame of logs
  9. Add tinder (smaller than your pinkie)
  10. Add fire starter
  11. Light fire

12. Add kindling (smaller than thumb, snap!)

13. Watch as flames build

  1. Add fuel (larger than thumb)
  2. Extinguish fire

With Dirt

a. let fire die

b. separate burning pieces, keep in ring

c. pour dirt over coals to smother, stir

d. continue till cold while holding hand over

With Water

  1. wet area around fire
  2. sprinkle water on fire, don’t pour
  3. spread out coals with a stick
  4. sprinkle again

e. continue till soaking wet ashes

  1. continue till cold while holding hand over

17. Leave no Trace

replace sod, look as if no one has been there

The burning qualities of wood

Beachwood fires are bright and clear,

If the logs are kept a year.

Chestnut's only good, they say,

If for long its laid away.

Birch and fir logs burn too fast,

Blaze up bright and do not last.

Elm wood burns like a churchyard mold,

Even the very flames are cold.

Poplar gives a bitter smoke,

Fills your eyes and makes you choke.

Apple wood will scent your room

With an incense like perfume.

Oak and maple, if dry and old,

Keep away the winter cold.

But ash wood wet and ash wood dry,

A king shall warm his slippers by.

Author unknown