Natural Tinder found everywhere?

A leatherman or SAK can be very useful for making natural tinder - even with a wet stick, if you split it you can get to dry wood, and the saw or file are AWESOME for getting a fine powder of wood dust. That stuff takes a spark pretty well.
 
I use the fibers inside a piece of para cord. As I last resort I have used a piece off the top part of my long tube sock.(But as a last resort because then your sock keeps falling down.) I wouldn't call these natural tinders, but alost everyone in the field has them with thier person always. For natural tinder that sparks easily find any half dead wood and scrape your blade back and forth across the top to make little fuzzy fibers. Just make sure you have something uner it to catch them. I find this to be very good tinder because it leaves pleanty of airspace for your oxygen source.
 
Fatwood's pretty plentiful around here. I'll usually harvest some whenever I find it, and keep a stash in my pack for whenever its more scarce. Works great, smells even better
 
Fatwood, lint, vaseline soaked cotton balls, and some melted paraffin mixed with pine sawdust are my always-carry starting tinder. However, I also know that living where I do, birch bark is a plentiful alternative, as are pine cones and the occasional pine stump. Two is one, one is none!
 
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