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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IdahoRenegade wrote:
The campfire is one of the high points of a trip. I really enjoy sitting around the fire with wife and/or friends, having a cold drink and telling lies.
One of the beauties of camping in N. Idaho is that there is nearly always a standing dead tree not too far away. If there aren't too many people around, the preferred approach is to drop a tree with the chainsaw, drag it back to camp with the ATV and buck it up there. If there are a good number of other campers around, it's always gone in the back of the P/U, after being bucked up where it was dropped. Now that we're picking up a Class B, we'll have to figure something else out.
Renegade - dropping trees or collecting other dead wood in a National forest requires a permit and in (near?) established campgrounds is 'verboten' - at least is was for cgs where we were workampers.
