This "stay warm by the fire all night" madness has got to stop. Once you build an open shelter with a fire in front of it, you're a slave to the fire. You spend precious calories hauling wood and you can never sleep. I wonder if anyone's ever been killed by trying to maintain their fire...
Oh dear, what ever shall we do - build a fire or a shelter first? Decision, decisions....
This past weekend. my son and I faced windy, rainy conditions. We started mostly dry and got settled into camp before the wind and rainy really kicked up. Our priorities were:
1. Get a sustainable fire going
2. Set up our shelter (we brought a pre-made one, coupled with a tarp, so didn't need to spend much time on the shelter)
3. Once the fire was sustainable, we boiled water as we foraged for enough wood to last through the night
It worked really well. We stayed warm and dry all night but, to thseng's point, I was up all night maintaining the fire and watching for any embers that popped into the shelter.
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