back from BWCA

[hmgROCK]

you a MARINE?
i see you have their camo backpack

play a lot of call of duty games

[Mr_Mechanic]

you a MARINE?
i see you have their camo backpack

play a lot of call of duty games

No, but my BIL is.

[Reporter]

If you scratch two dry wood sticks together very, very hard for a reasonably long time until you almost get blisters, you'll get some smoke coming out of them. That means they're burning. Add some dry leaves and you may get a flame.

Repeat if it fails...

My ancestors used dry bamboos. Much smoother. But there's no bamboo in northern Minnesota. So, gotta do it Western caveman style.

Mr Mec - Yeah we had a guide. Her name was Kelly. Prob around her late 20's. Blonde hair, blue eyes from a small town in IL. She was cool. Never met Hmong people before. She learned a lot from us and we did from her.

We didn't have one of those, but Kelly told us to row to the middle of the lake and get water from there. We boiled it, cooked with it and drank it. The time we went up we couldn't build fires either so we had to carry propane with us for the grill.. My friends also couldn't smoke, nor have a lighter etc.. they also died, I was like thank goodness as I don't smoke. It was hauntingly beautiful in the mornings and oh the GL (government latrines)--- LOL just in the middle of nowhere with no walls. That was a trip.

[Mr_Mechanic]

If you scratch two dry wood sticks together very, very hard for a reasonably long time until you almost get blisters, you'll get some smoke coming out of them. That means they're burning. Add some dry leaves and you may get a flame.

Repeat if it fails...

My ancestors used dry bamboos. Much smoother. But there's no bamboo in northern Minnesota. So, gotta do it Western caveman style.

no need to rub sticks together brother.  now a days, we use fire starters, lighter fluids, matches, so on and so fourth.

[Reporter]

Yeah. But she said they didn't have any of that.

So, I was camping with the family one time. I was to start the fireplace so that we could cook.

I cut up some wood pieces into very fine strips in order for them to catch flame. That took me some 30 minutes.

But the wind was strong and the strips couldn't quite catch flame.

My sil came and sprayed some fluids onto a firewood, clicked a lighter onto it, and voila!--flame burning high.

no need to rub sticks together brother.  now a days, we use fire starters, lighter fluids, matches, so on and so fourth.

[theking]

play a lot of call of duty games

Not surprised at all...

[DuMa]

Bwc

Back water country

[Mr_Mechanic]

Nice pictures. Are the skeeters and black flies manageable up there?

you know what, it wasn't that bad.  most times I didn't even have my hair net on.  just use OFF, and I was fine.