>>636620on a camping trip this October in the Huron National Forest in Michigan, brought along a cheap firesteel from like a surplus store or something, brought some birch bark that I collected in a ziploc many months before, so was pretty much bone dry.
That shit is an amazing substance. Birch bark is truly invaluable for firestarting.
Anyway, used a firesteel for the first time in years, since my boy scout days, used my knife instead of that shitty little scraper and just blasted sparks on this little nest of birch bark underneath a tinder pile. WHHOOOSSSHH of flames. Fire started.
dick:hard.
friends were amazed, felt like les stroud or some shit
