When you guys talk about bringing firestarter some of the absolute best firestarter you can find is all around you in the douglas fir forests on the island. When I worked in the bush we called it "Nookie Wood" but another name is Fatwood. You can find this stuff in the center of old rotted out fir stumps and is identifiable by a hard spire of wood sticking out of the top of a mostly rotten stump. It will be very solid because it is almost entirely pitch and when you cut the wood it will have so much pitch it looks like smoked salmon and will be the strongest christmas tree smell you can find.
Just a few shavings will ignite and burn with great intensity and will allow you to get a fire going almost anywhere. If you are in an old growth fir area, use the thick bark from a fir tree and if in mostly cedar area look for a downed cedar and cut the underside that has become extremely dry. Also the goats beard lichen can help to get things going or even find a fir tree that is pitching out from a wound on the trunk.....with this all you need is one match.
I know this isnt neccesarily a "what to bring" item but sometimes you need to "find" stuff. I carry a small stick of the nookie wood in my truck for emergencies.
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Haha I think trademarking that is a good idea.
A good nookie wood and fir bark fire went a long way on this -12C day in the bush.......couldnt even get near it and didnt need my jacket lol
When you guys talk about bringing firestarter some of the absolute best firestarter you can find is all around you in the douglas fir forests on the island. When I worked in the bush we called it "Nookie Wood" but another name is Fatwood. You can find this stuff in the center of old rotted out fir stumps and is identifiable by a hard spire of wood sticking out of the top of a mostly rotten stump. It will be very solid because it is almost entirely pitch and when you cut the wood it will have so much pitch it looks like smoked salmon and will be the strongest christmas tree smell you can find.
Just a few shavings will ignite and burn with great intensity and will allow you to get a fire going almost anywhere. If you are in an old growth fir area, use the thick bark from a fir tree and if in mostly cedar area look for a downed cedar and cut the underside that has become extremely dry. Also the goats beard lichen can help to get things going or even find a fir tree that is pitching out from a wound on the trunk.....with this all you need is one match.
I know this isnt neccesarily a "what to bring" item but sometimes you need to "find" stuff. I carry a small stick of the nookie wood in my truck for emergencies.
That gate in that picture is the wrong one.....head up the road and turn right.
If things fall apart Shane there is always https://www.facebook.com/events/1401843123406030/