Luke:

Doug has some very good things to say on tinder elsewhere on the site. Also, there are several earlier threads on the subject, too. As for me, I carry cotton balls and a few Spark-Lite tinders in my PSK.

On a Scout camping trip up to St. Francisville earlier this month, I was showing the boys how to properly build a fire. The boys said that the other dads just piled up the wood and sprayed it with lighter fluid, so I thought I'd give them a real lesson on fire building - I gathered the wood, built the teepee and, using a gauze pad and my Spark-Lite, I got the fire going in under a minute. The boys were amazed. So were the the other dads.

Oh yes - welcome to the forum, and Go Lions!

.....CLIFF