SHANE STEINKAMP'S BACKPACKING BASE CAMP
FIRE
PAGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION
LAWS OF FIRE
1. There are actually three fire skills: Fire making,
fire building, and fire maintaining. Fire making is easily
accomplished in the modern world using all kinds of devices. Cigarette
lighters, matches, flint and steel, magnifying glasses, etc. These are
all legitimate fire making means, and fortunately we can always keep them
handy. Learning how to make a fire without these means, however, is
fun if not necessarily easy. You can learn this skill from other
people, books, and even on the web. See the links section below.
This page, and others in this section are still under construction.
If you use a camp stove, you won't necessarily need fire building or maintaining skills, but it doesn't hurt to learn.
Once you have learned how to make a fire, you may move on to cooking with wood.