In addition, carrying a small flint type ignition device is a good idea (and is legal in your airline luggage, while my understanding is that it’s better to leave butane lighters and matches out of your luggage).Īvailable lighters worked fine for us until the 1990’s. We’ve covered this in a few other “fire starting” blog posts, but the minimum is to carry a couple of small butane cigarette lighters as well as a pack of waterproof matches, along with kindling material such as few cotton balls soaked with Vaseline. Key is to carry multiple ignition sources in your emergency kit.
My early attempts tended to be epics involving half charred wads of kleenex and poetic thoughts such as “where there is smoke, there may be no fire.” But with some practice and the proper equipment I’m feeling confident I can start an emergency campfire just about anywhere I can find fuel.
I’ve tried starting a few survival type campfires from scratch in cold and wet conditions. Shown here with the child lock getting excised.
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