Fire building

Recently I went to Camp Colman, which is a overnight camp by the YMCA. My favorite activity there was fire building.

The first time we did this, I tried using dry leaves to start the fire because I knew that it took some time for the sticks to start burning. But when we lit the fire, the leaves started burning very quickly and went out before the sticks caught fire. So instead we used dry grass, as the counselor suggested, and it worked very well. The fire started burning, the sticks caught, and it produced a lot of heat.

The second time we did fire building, we failed for two reasons. First of all, we were not allowed to go back to our original spot, which had an abundance of dry sticks, and had to rely mainly on big logs and other plants and toilet paper. Second, we had to leave the fire for around ten minutes to move our rafts from raft building into the water. Because of that, our fire died and we were left with a useless lump of charcoal.

In conclusion, even though fire building was fun, I have to admit that I am not very good at it.