Hiking conditions are often far from ideal. Rain and wind can be a hassle. If the matches run out or are damp, and you still have to spend the night and cook food in the open air after the day's march, then methods of preserving the fire can be very useful to you.
Necessary
Pot, cans, awning, polyethylene
Instructions
Step 1
Before heading out into the countryside for a long time, check out the tips and tricks from experienced hikers, anglers and hunters. Hot food, dry clothing, a warm overnight stay, and lighting the camp at night are the most important conditions for ensuring a safe life while hunting, fishing or hiking. All this is ensured by the timely and correct preparation of firewood, the ability to build and maintain a fire, keep it for a long time, and carry coals over long distances.
Step 2
If you are going to set up a camp for the night or just parking for a while, no matter how good the weather is at the moment, first of all, it’s still before dark, start collecting firewood for the fire. If possible, choose dry branches, very thin and rather thick branches, and even small trunks of fallen trees, will come in handy, so long as they are not rotten from old age. Dry pine spruce branches, birch birch bark, dried moss are suitable for lighting a fire.
Step 3
In case of an unexpected downpour or a lingering drizzle at night, cover the collected firewood stocks with polyethylene or thick green pine spruce branches. If it does rain at night, regularly put firewood in the fire, pull an awning over it on stakes, at a height that does not allow the cover to catch fire. If there is nothing to cover the fire with, put in it 2-3 of the thickest logs or a tree trunk turned out by a storm, with the roots in a fire, burning coals will remain under them.
Step 4
Save hot coals for further bonfire after moving to a new parking lot, or from the rain, the following method will help you. Pour a layer of dry earth about 5 cm into the pot, pour ash on it, put hot coals there, completely fill them with ash on top, then fill it with dry earth again. Instead of a kettle, you can use a large piece of birch bark, rolled into a pipe, plugged from the bottom with a crumpled lump of the same birch bark, and tied with rope or tape or fresh hazel bark.
In such a container, the coals are stored, not burning out for up to 10-12 hours. And if you cover the coals of a fire with ashes, then earth or sand on the spot, throw them with spruce or pine green branches, then you will have a bed that is heated all night. In the morning, you can start a fire again on the same coals.
