A friend of mine, a wildland firefigter is having his nephew out for a visit this Jan after Christmas.
He is an outdoors kid, so we are planning a fire, a lean-to and some Dutch Oven cooking. If it snows I will have him help me set up the wall tent with a stove. Spread the Lore or it will be lost.
I took my wall tent and stove to Yosemite one fall in late Oct. I had a line of people that wanted to check it out. There were mostly under about 30 years old.
So every night we had a fire under the full moon surrounded by giant ponderosa pine, white fir and incense cedar trees. Then I would take a shovel of coals into the stove in the wall tent and read John Muir watching the shadows of conifers dancing on the canvas in the moonlight. I can hear and smell the stove now as I am writing this. Old ways are the best ways.
