Lessons learned: Lighting a Fire in the Rain

[milani74]

Good thread. I tried this a week ago and didnt have very good results. My lesson I took away was that shelter is priority then fire. I was looking in my SAS book and noticed some good ideas I may try soon. One is four sticks sank into the ground vertically in a square then lash a roof onto the top of that and pile logs on the lashed wood to form a ceiling. It looks like the roof is slanted too to have the rain drip away from the fire.
I think this is crucial as it protects the dry wood that you just prepared from getting wet while you prepare the rest of your tinder/fuzz sticks.

 

[Anrkst6973]

bump. My brother and I spend a fair amount of occasions outside (getting lost,rained on an having a blast!) and he shows me the neatest thing...He's taken our usual tinder mix of dryer lint,wax and fine shaved fatwood and actually rolled it in rolling papers(like zig-zags yea.)about the size of cigarette and put a bunch of them in a rubberized waterproof container. Kind of like homemade lighter stics..lay it on a peice of bark,tear the end and throw the sparks and it burns for several minutes. I'm gonna have to smack him!!(only because I did'nt think of it first!)