I have gone camping with friends during my life that "camping requires a camp fire" to be... camping. It is something that we in western Montana never found as a threat to the forests or to ourselves.
With an Airstream I have lost that need for a campfire while camped in some remote location. In a desert. In the forest. On the prairie. In National Grasslands, Badlands or a designated Forest Service Campground. But... lets not consider any of those who still cherish the thought of having a campfire as some kind of fool from the City that will burn themselves and everyone else in the process.
Common Sense is a scarce commodity. Always has been. People in a city burn their apartment building down by putting a charcoal grill in the living room for heat. These are not "campers". Arson is not... camping. The vast majority of forest and grass fires are caused by everything BUT a camper. Lightening being the number ONE culprit. Coal burning locomotives needed "fire men" in the caboose to watch for spot fires created by hot embers coming out of the stack. Cigarettes discarded out the window along highways rate up there.
Designated camp sites have areas for a camp fire. When the risk of fire is high... common sense, again, should tell you that it is not a good time for a family tradition. A raging camp fire will carry embers into the pine trees around your camping site.
ALL hunter camps seem to have a campfire used since the forest service plowed access into the back country. My father worked for a time for the Montana Forest Service... biggest forest fire culprit... LIGHTENING STRIKES.
A campfire is not a bonfire. A large group of juveniles drinking around a bonfire is not... a campfire. Devil worshippers at a remote location dancing around a pile of logs with gasoline as a starter fluid is not a campfire.
Enjoy your campfire. It creates light, heat and the smoke will keep insects from wanting to get too close to you. Dowse your fire before you bed down. When leaving a campsite, water the fire OUT and bury it. The next camper will remove what is needed and improve upon what you left.
Stop at the local Forest Service office to get some expert opinions as to what is best and if this is the time to enjoy what we all remember with fond memories... sitting around a campfire, telling stories and... eating smoke.
With an Airstream I have lost that need for a campfire while camped in some remote location. In a desert. In the forest. On the prairie. In National Grasslands, Badlands or a designated Forest Service Campground. But... lets not consider any of those who still cherish the thought of having a campfire as some kind of fool from the City that will burn themselves and everyone else in the process.
Common Sense is a scarce commodity. Always has been. People in a city burn their apartment building down by putting a charcoal grill in the living room for heat. These are not "campers". Arson is not... camping. The vast majority of forest and grass fires are caused by everything BUT a camper. Lightening being the number ONE culprit. Coal burning locomotives needed "fire men" in the caboose to watch for spot fires created by hot embers coming out of the stack. Cigarettes discarded out the window along highways rate up there.
Designated camp sites have areas for a camp fire. When the risk of fire is high... common sense, again, should tell you that it is not a good time for a family tradition. A raging camp fire will carry embers into the pine trees around your camping site.
ALL hunter camps seem to have a campfire used since the forest service plowed access into the back country. My father worked for a time for the Montana Forest Service... biggest forest fire culprit... LIGHTENING STRIKES.
A campfire is not a bonfire. A large group of juveniles drinking around a bonfire is not... a campfire. Devil worshippers at a remote location dancing around a pile of logs with gasoline as a starter fluid is not a campfire.
Enjoy your campfire. It creates light, heat and the smoke will keep insects from wanting to get too close to you. Dowse your fire before you bed down. When leaving a campsite, water the fire OUT and bury it. The next camper will remove what is needed and improve upon what you left.
Stop at the local Forest Service office to get some expert opinions as to what is best and if this is the time to enjoy what we all remember with fond memories... sitting around a campfire, telling stories and... eating smoke.
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