With a little coaching, faith and encouragement, bacpacboy made his first solo twig fire today!

First he collected tinder and kindling (pencil lead thick, pencil thick, thumb thick and thicker) and put them in separate piles.
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Then he made some shavings and feather sticks with his SAK Camper, and placed the shavings in a pile on a small platform of sticks on the sand



Then he used his SAK and ferro rod to try and light the shavings. He tried using the SAK's awl, but found it uncomfortable to grip so he tried the scraper that came with the ferro rod and then went back to the SAK. His technique still needs a lot of coaching but it's getting better. I laughed when he said "I agree with Myke Hawke - just carry a ding dang lighter!" LOL!


After some coaching and lots of perseverance, he did it! (Good thing we had lunch before fire practice. We had hiked for three hours and were starving!)



Here's a couple videos of it. Sorry for the gap in the middle. He needed some help getting rid of the lanyard on the ferro rod and with his technique, but he eventually got it and was very proud of himself when he did. I was proud of him too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GKTeDXKvPU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbvRb1y1XqY

Thanks for looking!