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This happened quite some time ago and I was just a wimpy socially awkward kid back then
>Cold fucking winter -15C (for my area at least)
>Really was into survival and shit and wanted to prove to myself that I could light a fire with just a firesteel during the coldest day of winter
>Biked to the woods
>Grabbed a cable saw and starting cutting off a dead tree
>Saw broke
>Pull out my tomahawk and start chopping
>Get cold so I put on my ear flaps on my Ushanka so that I couldn't hear a thing
>Made some shavings, obviously didn't catch a spark.
>Like fifteen minutes go by after I pull out my tomahawk. Two forest jannies stand behind me, looking directly at me.
>Get scared
>They say something, can't hear shit
>Take off my hat and they are saying that I downed a tree or something. So I show them that the claim is bullshit because the tree I was chopping was already downed by the wind.
>They accuse me of stealing wood. I explain to them that I just wanted to start a fire. They get confused by the answer and say I'm a pyromaniac.
>Show them the fire circle.
>Ask me if I wanted to grill a deer.
>No Sir.
>Tell me to fuck off and never return cause next time they'll take away my wood cutting tools.
That was my last negative forest janny experience. Since then I have learned to be more stealthy and that fire steels work for shit during winter (at least with normal tinders like birch bark). But to this day I regret not standing up for myself, oh well if you're going to take anything out of this it should be that axes are shit when you're trying to not get caught. Invest in a saw and don't cover up your ears.
