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Hope, BC
Canada
7093 Posts |
Posted - 04/11/2012 : 2:13 PM
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| Hiking safety can never be over emphasized, good post. |
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Calgary, AB
49 Posts |
Posted - 05/03/2012 : 2:19 PM
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| I just witnessed a conversation an hour ago at the store when I was buying Jet boil. Guys were in trouble because igniter on JB was broken on snowshoe trip and NOONE had matches or lighter... Looked like they learned the lesson, thanks God. |
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1078 Posts |
Posted - 05/03/2012 : 10:05 PM
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Originally posted by AcesHigh
Hiking safety can never be over emphasized, good post.
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Originally posted by AcesHigh
Always be carefull crossing the road too, look both ways! Oh and look up in case the sky is falling!
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Originally posted by peter1955
Actually, Cutthroat, Aces is being relatively polite. Cambium's a proverbial 'waste of skin' but most people just put himon their 'ignore' list. Wait until you've seen some of the garbage he continually spews out.
First posts from Cambiums: "Always be prepared when heading out" thread.
http://www.clubtread.com/sforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=42785 |
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North Vancouver, BC
Canada
1262 Posts |
Posted - 05/04/2012 : 05:59 AM
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No one is completely useless, they can always be used as an example .
Edumacation for outdoors newbies? With all the gadgets we for some reason must have nowadays , just being without technology would be a start. |
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Hope, BC
Canada
7093 Posts |
Posted - 05/04/2012 : 06:11 AM
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Originally posted by brucew
No one is completely useless, they can always be used as an example .
Hahahaha! |
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Richmond, BC
Canada
2440 Posts |
Posted - 05/04/2012 : 06:38 AM
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| I keep all 3 forms of ignitors in my essentials kit. Flint, matches, and lighter |
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Kamloops, B.C.
Canada
157 Posts |
Posted - 05/04/2012 : 08:08 AM
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| any mention of guns as a useful signalling device. Or shoot a bear crawl inside keep warm til help comes.... just saying |
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Calgary, Alberta
Andorra
3787 Posts |
Posted - 05/04/2012 : 08:21 AM
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| I love the small compressed wood firestarters that burn a while. They saved us the time our stove broke and everything was soaked from a week of straight rain prior to our trip by burning long enough to dry out the little sticks and let us start the fire. |
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Kamloops, B.C.
Canada
157 Posts |
Posted - 05/04/2012 : 08:29 AM
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| 99% alcohol hand sanitizer will burn a long time. A 15 min highway flare will light a wet log or almost anything wood on fire even snow covered. Bring two one for a signal flare the other for a fire starter. |
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Satirical photoshop junkie who frolics in the mountains of the Chilliwack River Valley
Chilliwack, BC
Canada
6895 Posts |
Posted - 05/04/2012 : 11:49 AM
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| small tuna can packed with cardboard and soaked with parrafin wax burns a long time. |
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Calgary, Alberta
Andorra
3787 Posts |
Posted - 05/04/2012 : 12:19 PM
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Originally posted by omegarun
99% alcohol hand sanitizer will burn a long time. A 15 min highway flare will light a wet log or almost anything wood on fire even snow covered. Bring two one for a signal flare the other for a fire starter.
I've found that hand sanitizer or 'fire gel', which I think is a similar idea, burn long, but don't burn hot enough to do much else. I've had a hard time getting other things lit from it. |
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1078 Posts |
Posted - 05/05/2012 : 05:06 AM
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Originally posted by AcesHigh
Hiking safety can never be over emphasized, good post.
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Originally posted by AcesHigh
Always be carefull crossing the road too, look both ways! Oh and look up in case the sky is falling!
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Originally posted by peter1955
Actually, Cutthroat, Aces is being relatively polite. Cambium's a proverbial 'waste of skin' but most people just put himon their 'ignore' list. Wait until you've seen some of the garbage he continually spews out.
First posts from Cambiums: "Always be prepared when heading out" thread.
http://www.clubtread.com/sforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=42785 |
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Invermere, BC
Canada
176 Posts |
Posted - 05/06/2012 : 2:10 PM
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| cotton balls or dryer lint soaked in vaseline will burn for a long time. I usually keep some in an old film canister. |
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Richmond, BC
Canada
2440 Posts |
Posted - 05/06/2012 : 5:56 PM
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Originally posted by Rachelo
I love the small compressed wood firestarters that burn a while. They saved us the time our stove broke and everything was soaked from a week of straight rain prior to our trip by burning long enough to dry out the little sticks and let us start the fire.
It's in my kit too. |
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Richmond, BC
Canada
2440 Posts |
Posted - 05/06/2012 : 5:58 PM
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Originally posted by Kootenay Kid
cotton balls or dryer lint soaked in vaseline will burn for a long time. I usually keep some in an old film canister.
yes this is an excellent idea. (also makes good gun cotton  ) |
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Outdoors addicted flyfishing, skiing, snowshoeing, hiking car crooner and resident motormouth
Da'Wack, BC
Canada
5368 Posts |
Posted - 05/06/2012 : 6:20 PM
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Originally posted by Kootenay Kid
cotton balls or dryer lint soaked in vaseline will burn for a long time. I usually keep some in an old film canister.
They burn readily and fast...but I wouldn't say they burn a long time... |
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chilliwack, bc
Canada
124 Posts |
Posted - 05/07/2012 : 07:05 AM
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| I use belly lint.... its free and eco-friendly! |
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Utah's canyon trekking,deck chair packing desert explorer who dreams of visiting Canada someday
3988 Posts |
Posted - 05/31/2012 : 5:50 PM
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Great ideas here. Film Canisters used for storage is a great idea. gotta try a sampling of that vaseline and cotton ball idea. Maybe start a firepit fireside tonight, that way.
My friend keeps steel wool in her Outback in her survival kit. Ever hear of starting a fire with steel wool over the battery terminals? Extreme.....
Pmicheals. I tossed out every freakin one of my durn flint fire starters. I guess I am way too stupid to make a fire with them. I have bloodied up my hands striking and re-striking making tons of sparks and.....bupkis....hehe help? Maybe I need some boyscout to show me?
I carry two bic lighters and some matches that are super thick pregnated with fire starter material along the shaft. Way cool!! Strike them and watch out. They take off!! burnt my fingers the first time I tried it. It flared out and when the fuel on the thick stick caught, I was staring at it like a dummy and poof! the whole match became inflamed. I dropped it and it burnt on the concrete for awhile. I am sold. Thick matches that are fire starter sticks with match heads. My finger hurts just thinking about it....
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Qualicum Beach, BC
Canada
1301 Posts |
Posted - 05/31/2012 : 6:31 PM
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When I was 10 and 11, I won the fastest with flint & steel, in my boy scout troop, both years. That was 50 years ago and I haven't used that skill for a long time now.
We use to take bits of cotton flannel rags and cook them, inside a can with a loose lid, in the oven until they charred black and got almost to the point of falling apart. That became our tinder. We considered steel wool, for tinder, cheating.We had a chunk of flint and a piece of old file, to strike on.
The contest started with everyone having their area cleared away and a string suspended horizontal over it at three feet. The contest was to gather your fuel... sticks, bark, duff... whatever you thought needed. Then we got out our fire making kits out, struck sparks on our tinder and got our fires going, adding bits of fuel and blowing our lungs out. The first one to burn through the string at three feet won... and that was me just about every time.
Now who has started a fire with the bow & drill method? That takes fire starting skills to another level! |
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Calgary, Alberta
Andorra
3787 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2012 : 4:50 PM
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I think film canisters are going to be the next generation's matchboxes and cigarette cartons.
When I was a child and read old craft books, they always seemed to take for granted that there would be matchboxes, cigarette cartons, and cigarette paper available for use - none of which ever existed in my house. I found this confusing.
I suspect the current generation will feel similarly about film canisters. They were ubiquitous growing up, and we used them for all kinds of things, and more appeared regularly. Now I have a small stash of them, and haven't got any new ones in years. I'm having to ration and find replacements for some. I bet the average 10-year-old today might not even be able to identify one other than as a coin-holder. |
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Inexperienced Hikers
