Video: How to Find Dry Tinder in Wet Weather
The ability to start a fire under survival conditions can save your life. The inability can cost your life.
by Leon Pantenburg
There is an interesting firemaking paradox where I live in Central Oregon. In the summer, it can be very hard to keep from making a fire in the woods. During the winter, it is probably going to be very hard to get a fire going.
Can you find dry firemaking materials during inclimate weather?
But Murphy’s Law states that the more desperately you need a fire, the harder it will be to get one started. If you get wet during a sleet storm, fall in a stream or need a fire to fight off hypothermia, you need a fire ASAP, and you need to know where to find dry tinder and small sticks.
Assuming you have a trustworthy fire ignition system, and some reliable firestarter, you are ready to get started. But the missing component may be the small DRY tinder, twigs and bark to take your survival fire from the ignition stage to where the flame is big enough to start burning intermediate sticks.
Here is how to find and where to look for those materials during a snow/sleet storm.
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Practice now, so the skill comes easily when you need it.
Thanks for the refresher. It’s a cold, wet day as I look out the window.
Perfect time to give it a try!
Thanks for reading!
Thank you Leon. Great as always my friend.
Excellent!.