Campfires: Love them or hate them?
For some, campfires mean bedtime stories, roasted hot dogs and marshmallows. For my wife and me, on a recent overnight at Lathrop State Park near Walsenburg CO, campfire smoke meant sneezing, itchy ey...
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The evening campfire gathering is the highpoint of our kind of camping; we're reenactors (Civil War) so that campfire is not just for fun: we cook over it, warm ourselves on cold nights and they provide much needed light:) That said, we have been camped in among trees and just take it for granted we must be careful. Killing the fire as we're packing out is a huge priority: water and stirring and more water and some more stirring...it's got to be COLD before we all pull out. Also there's always the discussion about the quality of the wood provided by the folks putting on the reenactment (they supply us water, firewood and straw bales). Smoke is just what it is...a pain, but oh well. BTW, we have had our tent catch fire and a very, very fast young man managed to stomp it out and rescue our "home".
