Campfire Basics

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/how-to-prevent-wildfires-while-camping-wellness/index.html


Good morning Newcomers and all other readers,

Article per ... It's focused on safety.

Article has link to the Smokey site.

Again, article is basic. Later you'll hear about not ringing fire with rocks next to a river. They might have water soaked in them and when heated can explode.

Prep, prep, prep
and
factor in safety

 

My only concern with campfire is light discipline. Even when there is no need for noise & light discipline, a campfire is a sure way to ruin Mk I Eyeball nightvision

 

Good afternoon Varuna,

Even if campfire is below ground a little so no horizontal line of sight, isn't there thermal imaging also used by hostile forces ?

 

I love a good campfire and have spent thousands of happy hours watching the flames of a fire at night in the woods. A lot of people will die before they figure out the difference between camping and being in the woods at night during a survival situation. If you want to pass through an area unnoticed you don't build fires of any kind. Day or night they are an advertisement of your presence to the world and put you at a disadvantage. If you are comfortable in the woods you don't need a fire. A fire not only makes you blind, it makes you deaf to the small sounds of a predator. It spotlights you for anyone with a gun. It makes you feel safe while making you unsafe.

 

never thought of it that way before...thanks

 

What about using a Dakota Fire Hole of you have to cook or heat water but stealth is also a requirement?
The light is more concealed, they produce less smoke if done right and afterwards its easier to cover up the fact that there was a fire there at all.

 

In theory yes, but in practice thermal is use vertically, because you don't get much of a range when horizontal

You could use windshield (depend on design though) or burning fuel that emit different colour flame such as blue. Its still flame that usable to cook, but the flame colour won't reach as far as yellow colour flame. But it still complementary to use other messure such as windshield or orienting the said windshield

 

Good morning Varuna,

Thermal imaging is diagonal from an aircraft.

Firefighter use it also using a diagonal to check the top of a building.

 

Turning dried beans into soup beans, cooking-up some soup beans over a campfire. Complete with some recipe suggestions.

Man, thot thar video has did done an' put th'smell a'soup beans up hyar in m'head. Startin' t'feel downright peckish ah am. Wonder if'n we still got some streaked meat? Git th'kindlin' a'goin boyz, they'z gonna be some fine fixin's to deeeeeelight!



Now th'next video is about ham'n'beans. Hit don't gotta be no hawg meat, bruthers'n'sisters. Shoot no! Put whatever you went an' shot thot thar day in with yer beans. Makes no never-mind, if'n y'jist y'kilt it, go an' use it! Yessir. The Lord provides!

If'n y'don't got no store-bought charcoal, jist put hit over yer fire or mamaw's woodstove.

 

there is a way called the Dakota fire hole that allows one to cook with a minimum of
flame and smoke that is visible , learn how