How to season firewood properly: split it small, stack it off the ground, cover only the top. Drying times by species and the 20% moisture rule. Read more ...
The best types of firewood for a campfire are dense hardwoods: oak, hickory, beech, sugar maple, ash and black locust. They burn slow, throw steady heat, and collapse into a bed of coals you can cook…
Set up a campsite by splitting it into four zones before you unpack anything: sleep, kitchen, fire, and storage. Decide where each one lives while your hands are still empty. Do that, and camp flows. Skip…
Cook over coals, never over flames. Let the fire burn down for 45 to 60 minutes until you have a glowing bed covered in grey ash, then ...
To light a gas fire pit: open the propane tank valve slowly, wait about thirty seconds, then push and turn the control knob while holding a lighter or pressing the igniter at the burner. To turn it off ...
Put out a campfire by drowning it with water, stirring the ash and embers with a shovel, drowning it a second time, then feeling the whole bed with the back of your hand. It is not out until everything is cold to the touch ...
A campfire is three sizes of wood stacked in the right order. Put a loose handful of tinder in the center of the ring, build pencil-thin kindling around it in a teepee, then add wrist-thick fuel wood only once the kindling is burning …
Most camping food hacks you find online were clearly written by someone who has never scraped burnt rice off a pot in the dark. This list is different. It comes from a running note on my…
Let’s name the real worry, because almost nobody says it out loud: camping at night is the part that makes new campers nervous. The daytime is easy. Hiking, snacks, hammock, great. Then the sun drops, the…
I found out my awning was done at a rest stop outside Amarillo, when I walked around the rig and saw eight feet of vinyl waving at traffic like a checkered flag. If you’re in the…
