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Mar. 3rd, 2014 08:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynSo this weekend we made fire.
It was for an REI Outdoor School winter survival skills class. Some lecture, some hands-on- a lot of the lecture was on preparation and the ten essentials to bring with us on hikes and camping trips. Some of it was practicals, like building an emergency one- or two-person shelter from fallen wood in the event that we had to wait something out before rescue, or melting snow and boiling it over a camp stove (which we had to be able to deploy and use) to make it safe to drink. And one of the practicals was learning to make a fire using only the materials on hand and two matches (or, in one guy's case, a firesteel he had in his pocket). Fun stuff, although I think I'd expected a little more detail of things like land navigation, but then again unless you really know your stuff you're more likely to get yourself lost if you try to start moving instead of sitting and signaling and waiting for rescue. So that makes sense.
I'll be spending most of this week working on my assignment (assignments? I'm not sure how many I'm supposed to do) for the Invisible Ficathon, but at least I got out this weekend.
It was for an REI Outdoor School winter survival skills class. Some lecture, some hands-on- a lot of the lecture was on preparation and the ten essentials to bring with us on hikes and camping trips. Some of it was practicals, like building an emergency one- or two-person shelter from fallen wood in the event that we had to wait something out before rescue, or melting snow and boiling it over a camp stove (which we had to be able to deploy and use) to make it safe to drink. And one of the practicals was learning to make a fire using only the materials on hand and two matches (or, in one guy's case, a firesteel he had in his pocket). Fun stuff, although I think I'd expected a little more detail of things like land navigation, but then again unless you really know your stuff you're more likely to get yourself lost if you try to start moving instead of sitting and signaling and waiting for rescue. So that makes sense.
I'll be spending most of this week working on my assignment (assignments? I'm not sure how many I'm supposed to do) for the Invisible Ficathon, but at least I got out this weekend.
