Learned something new about camping....
Staying the weekend at Hoffmaster SP near Muskegon. Picked a nice enough site, in the dark of coarse. Parking under an Oak tree is a noisy affair with an aluminum roof. It's so quiet here from the ...
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kknowlton wrote:
LOL! Loving the last 3 posts!! I would have never thought of that. (Yep, I'm from inland.) I think I'll take acorns & sap too. As far as the previous comment about pine cones, the worst are the ones from theloblolly pines in SC - those suckers are HUGE!
They sound like a bomb is going off when they land!!
X2!
I encountered those 'Jurassic Park' pine cones in lower Georgia for the first time in a CG. Unbelievable how big they are! They were all over.
I started collecting them and putting them in a big bag when finally the CG owner came up and asked me if I was cleaning up the CG for him!!
Actually regular sized pine cones make great FIREBALLS for starting a campfire. Pine cones will start a log of hard oak in seconds flat into a nice clean burning campfire.
I figured these big bad boys would start a REAL hot flame throwing campfire!
