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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I love campfires but hardly get to build one anymore. My 5yo son is a high functioning autistic, and a runner, so he requires physical hands on nearly 100% of the time. Often by the time we get to evening, I am just too tired to make one and the girls have expressed they don't want one either. My wife likes the idea of a campfire, but if it is cool outside she heads in after a few minutes. I am hoping in a couple years the kids will be more interested and maybe my son will not be as inclined to run. This last week we went for a couple days, and our neighbors had fires, so we got to have that campfire smell and atmosphere without building one myself :)
It does depend some on where and the weather. I have been places, like Yosemite valley, where an inversion layer sets up and the smoke litterally sits on the valley floor like a fog. Most of the time where we camp there is enough air movement to keep it any smoke moving.
It does depend some on where and the weather. I have been places, like Yosemite valley, where an inversion layer sets up and the smoke litterally sits on the valley floor like a fog. Most of the time where we camp there is enough air movement to keep it any smoke moving.
