Practical fieldcraft for camping, hiking and survival: shelter, fire, water, navigation, knots and tools, weather and wildlife.
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Building, lighting, managing and extinguishing fires — ignition methods, fire lays, and burning in bad weather.
32 total questions
Card #1
What is the fire triangle?
Card #2
What are the three stages of fire-building material, in order?
Card #3
How do you build a teepee fire lay?
1. You are about to light your fire on a breezy evening. Where do you kneel and apply the flame?
2. Everything is rain-soaked, but you need tinder that will take a flame. Which natural material burns well even when damp?
3. You want a fire that will burn for hours overnight with little tending. Which lay suits this best?
1. Resin-saturated pine heartwood that lights easily and burns hot even when wet is called ___.
Hint: Harvested from old pine stumps
2. In a bow-drill set, the hot dust ground into the hearth board's notch eventually forms a glowing ___.
Hint: You tip it into tinder and blow
3. A glowing ember is blown into flame inside a loosely packed tinder ___.
Hint: Shaped like what a bird would make
