Hi all,
Yesterday it started raining in my area of the world. We have not had rain for some time. It has a been a pretty dry fall for us here. The rain we got was just a steady stream of rain. This morning when I got up and looked out side it was not raining at the time. Kathy and I decided to take a hike down near the river that flows by our little town.
Just some back ground about this place where I hike and have fires and just play in the woods. Several years back the township decided to spend some money on a hiking / walking trail over a old rail road trail. They took out the old rails and put down some small white rocks and built a nice wooded path over the rail road bridge. This area where the rail road used to travel through is a area roughly 1/2 wide by maybe 3/4 of a long. There are trees on both sides of the path and then on both sides of the river. Most people come to the Dam to fish and then walk on the trail. This trail is a half circle type of thing. meaning once you start out at the dam and cross over the bridge that was built over the old rail rode bridge it will take you to a road. at the road you either stop and turn around and come back or start walking on the road back into town. Here is a pic of the dam and the parking lot. I took this pic as Kathy and I were comming back from our hike and little fire that we had.
Here is a pic of the Dam and me just before we crossed over the bridge.
Today I carried my Noatak gearslinger pack.
I took this pic of Kathy and Kelly Girl as they were walking in front of me.
Once across the bridge you can stay on the trial or turn to the right or the left and then follow the river up or down or you can head into the timber that is there. some spots you can be in a area of timber that is 300 or so yards by 500 or so yards.
this is on both sides of the river depending on where you are at along the river.
About 8 years back I was walking though one of these areas and found spot that I thought would be a good place to have a little fire pit area.
I have a few bricks that I found by the old rail road tracks and a little bridge that was being worked and back then and a few bricks broke and were tossed off to the side and well I picked them up and carried them about 200 yards to my little fire pit area. I also have peace of black plastic and under that plastic I have a old tin can hobo stove and some wood that I keep there for when I come to that spot I can quickly get a fire going and then while I am there I work on cutting up some more wood to replace what I used.
Kathy took this pic of me getting fuzz sticks made and splitting some sawed logs that I sawed with my hand saw.
When we got there to the fire pit area it was not to chilly,but it was soaking wet on the ground and the surrounding area so I pulled out my poncho and put that down and then sat on my coat. temps were in the 40s and I had 2 shirts on so it was not to bad to split some wood with my knife and with the help of a batton I split some rounds and then shaved them up into t some fuzz sticks. I also had 2 fat wood sticks and made some fuzz sticks up with them.
Once I had the fuzz sticks carved up and then the all the split sticks I wanted I put them together in a tipi.
Then I reached into my pocket and got my fire starting device ( Bic Lighter) and lit my shaving and fuzz sticks, which in turn lit the split sticks and bigger kindling.
After the fire was going I decided to start getting my wood that I have over time cut and brought to my fire pit area. I laid a log of about 3" thick or so on my leg / foot area and carefully started to saw a peice of wood off.
Once I had that peice sawed off I took orange handled Kephart knife and with my batton I spilt it up.
To be continued.
Yesterday it started raining in my area of the world. We have not had rain for some time. It has a been a pretty dry fall for us here. The rain we got was just a steady stream of rain. This morning when I got up and looked out side it was not raining at the time. Kathy and I decided to take a hike down near the river that flows by our little town.
Just some back ground about this place where I hike and have fires and just play in the woods. Several years back the township decided to spend some money on a hiking / walking trail over a old rail road trail. They took out the old rails and put down some small white rocks and built a nice wooded path over the rail road bridge. This area where the rail road used to travel through is a area roughly 1/2 wide by maybe 3/4 of a long. There are trees on both sides of the path and then on both sides of the river. Most people come to the Dam to fish and then walk on the trail. This trail is a half circle type of thing. meaning once you start out at the dam and cross over the bridge that was built over the old rail rode bridge it will take you to a road. at the road you either stop and turn around and come back or start walking on the road back into town. Here is a pic of the dam and the parking lot. I took this pic as Kathy and I were comming back from our hike and little fire that we had.
Here is a pic of the Dam and me just before we crossed over the bridge.
Today I carried my Noatak gearslinger pack.
I took this pic of Kathy and Kelly Girl as they were walking in front of me.
Once across the bridge you can stay on the trial or turn to the right or the left and then follow the river up or down or you can head into the timber that is there. some spots you can be in a area of timber that is 300 or so yards by 500 or so yards.
this is on both sides of the river depending on where you are at along the river.
About 8 years back I was walking though one of these areas and found spot that I thought would be a good place to have a little fire pit area.
I have a few bricks that I found by the old rail road tracks and a little bridge that was being worked and back then and a few bricks broke and were tossed off to the side and well I picked them up and carried them about 200 yards to my little fire pit area. I also have peace of black plastic and under that plastic I have a old tin can hobo stove and some wood that I keep there for when I come to that spot I can quickly get a fire going and then while I am there I work on cutting up some more wood to replace what I used.
Kathy took this pic of me getting fuzz sticks made and splitting some sawed logs that I sawed with my hand saw.
When we got there to the fire pit area it was not to chilly,but it was soaking wet on the ground and the surrounding area so I pulled out my poncho and put that down and then sat on my coat. temps were in the 40s and I had 2 shirts on so it was not to bad to split some wood with my knife and with the help of a batton I split some rounds and then shaved them up into t some fuzz sticks. I also had 2 fat wood sticks and made some fuzz sticks up with them.
Once I had the fuzz sticks carved up and then the all the split sticks I wanted I put them together in a tipi.
Then I reached into my pocket and got my fire starting device ( Bic Lighter) and lit my shaving and fuzz sticks, which in turn lit the split sticks and bigger kindling.
After the fire was going I decided to start getting my wood that I have over time cut and brought to my fire pit area. I laid a log of about 3" thick or so on my leg / foot area and carefully started to saw a peice of wood off.
Once I had that peice sawed off I took orange handled Kephart knife and with my batton I spilt it up.
To be continued.
