When hiking or traveling, it is often necessary to light a fire. In dry summer weather, one spark is enough to ignite the fire. But, as is usually the case, the more needed the flame, the more difficult it is to light it up. Especially if you and your belongings are already wet. What needs to be done so that lighting a fire during a hike does not become an insoluble problem?
Necessary
- - matches or a lighter,
- - firewood,
- - kindling.
Instructions
Step 1
First, take care of what you will use to light the fire before the hike. Traditionally, matches and gas lighters are used for this. Each of these methods has drawbacks: matches are damp, lighters do not work at low temperatures. Ideally, you should take several boxes of matches in separate waterproof bags and several lighters with you. Some specialty stores sell special tourist matches that burn longer and stronger. If possible, you can purchase them.
Step 2
In the parking lot, first of all, you need to take care of the kindling. For inexperienced tourists, paper is the best choice for kindling. This is wrong. The paper quickly flares up and burns out, without having time to set fire to the wood. Much more suitable for kindling a fire are dry lower branches of spruce, which practically do not get wet even in wet weather. Also for kindling, you can use birch bark or spruce bark, torn off in the place of an old wound, where there is a lot of resin.
Step 3
How to form a fire. First, put the kindling, on it - thin dry sticks and twigs. Firewood for a fire around the kindling is usually laid in two ways - in the form of a hut or a well. Such forms allow you to quickly and without much hassle light a fire - kindling sets fire to small twigs, which, in turn, have time to set fire to the wood.
Step 4
You can make a fire without matches. If there are no matches, and the lighter runs out of gas, but there is still flint, sparks from it can ignite plant fluff from cattail, reed, dandelion or poplar. In damp weather or in winter, make a fire on the deck. Dry alcohol can be used for kindling. In particularly difficult, emergency cases, you can kindle a fire using scraps of rubber or plexiglass. They burn with a strong unpleasant odor and fumes, but in extreme conditions they help to light the flame. If there is no other way out, you can also light a fire with gasoline. The first person should pour it on the wood and move away, because because of the strong fluidity of gasoline, it can be imperceptibly poured over it. The canister must be carried away at a distance of about 20 m. The second person, approaching from the windward side at a distance of 1-1.5 m, must throw a lighted match on the wood.
