COOKING

HOW TO BUILD A CAMPFIRE

KINDLING
Dead twigs that are no thicker than a pencil are called kindling. Find enough to fill your hat twice.

FUEL
Fuelwood can be as thin as your finger or as thick as your wrist. Use sticks you find on the ground and gather them from a wide area rather than removing all the downed wood from one spot.

Lay the Fire
There are many ways to arrange tinder, kindling, and fuel so that the heat of a single match can grow into the flames of a campfire. A tepee fire lay is a good all- around method:

1. PLACE A BIG, LOOSE HANDFUL OF TINDER IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR FIRE SITE.
2. Mound plenty of small kindling over the tinder.
3. Arrange small and medium-sized sticks of fuelwood around the kindling as if they were the poles of a tepee. Leave an opening in the tepee on the side the wind is glowing against so that air can reach the middle of the fire.
4. Ease a burning match under the tinder. The flame should rise through the tinder and crackle up into the kindling and the fuelwood above.