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I wanted to get another overnighter in while the temperatures were still low. Low was 26F and I used only a long-fire to sleep next to, which requires a lot of time to process wood. Lots of wood!
Winter nights are long, dark is full-on at about 5:30 (late winter) and to keep warm that is about 14 hours of fire !
I started with a modified log-cabin fire, which directly translates tolazy mans log-cabin fire.
I made the structure the same, but just put all the tinder, kindling at the bottom, and formed a tipi.
Log-cabin fires always heat my water and form coals for cooking fast.
Scandinavian Steamed Fish
I took a hatchet and got some maple chips
Then I laid the chips at the bottom of a pan, placed spruce and pine needles on top, then added water. I placed the fish on the bed of needles, added water to the bottom and set over the coals. It took about 15 minutes to perfectly cook the fish
Added a healthy dose of Buckweat for a real Scandi meal!
Long-Fire
Lots of wood is needed to sleep near a long-fire. Not only large logs, but lots of kindling to brand up the fire once it dies and you wake in the night or early morning hours. Just throwing logs on a bed of coals in the 20s just wont do it. It is super important to surround the bed/sleeping area with logs for fuel and small fuel to throw on during the night.
Red Beans & Rice was supper.
At 5:30 I knew it was time to start the fire, which would need to burn until 7 am-ish.
It is common to have up to 6 logs on at a time to throw heat onto my pole bed, which was one-step away from the fire, sometimes closer.
Left over
I woke up about 4 times to add wood, and was able to fall back to sleep with no problem!
Morning view!
Winter nights are long, dark is full-on at about 5:30 (late winter) and to keep warm that is about 14 hours of fire !
I started with a modified log-cabin fire, which directly translates tolazy mans log-cabin fire.
I made the structure the same, but just put all the tinder, kindling at the bottom, and formed a tipi.
Log-cabin fires always heat my water and form coals for cooking fast.
Scandinavian Steamed Fish
I took a hatchet and got some maple chips
Then I laid the chips at the bottom of a pan, placed spruce and pine needles on top, then added water. I placed the fish on the bed of needles, added water to the bottom and set over the coals. It took about 15 minutes to perfectly cook the fish
Added a healthy dose of Buckweat for a real Scandi meal!
Long-Fire
Lots of wood is needed to sleep near a long-fire. Not only large logs, but lots of kindling to brand up the fire once it dies and you wake in the night or early morning hours. Just throwing logs on a bed of coals in the 20s just wont do it. It is super important to surround the bed/sleeping area with logs for fuel and small fuel to throw on during the night.
Red Beans & Rice was supper.
At 5:30 I knew it was time to start the fire, which would need to burn until 7 am-ish.
It is common to have up to 6 logs on at a time to throw heat onto my pole bed, which was one-step away from the fire, sometimes closer.
Left over
I woke up about 4 times to add wood, and was able to fall back to sleep with no problem!
Morning view!
