Petew wrote:Cotton wool balls smeared with Vasoline, don't normally light fires but handy if you have to. Weigh nothing.
north-north-west wrote:I'm assuming no-one suggesting fire has ever been to Cuvier Shelf. I'd like to see someone try to collect firewood up there in a blizzard.
Petew wrote:How well does DCF burn?
Moondog55 wrote:north-north-west wrote:I'm assuming no-one suggesting fire has ever been to Cuvier Shelf. I'd like to see someone try to collect firewood up there in a blizzard.
Do you mean a snow storm??
Moondog55 wrote:north-north-west wrote:I'm assuming no-one suggesting fire has ever been to Cuvier Shelf. I'd like to see someone try to collect firewood up there in a blizzard.
Do you mean a snow storm??
Obviously I am not familiar with the area but there are places here on the mainland where lighting a fire in snow is damned near impossible
Petew wrote:Cotton wool balls smeared with Vasoline, don't normally light fires but handy if you have to. Weigh nothing.
Son of a Beach wrote:Moondog55 wrote:north-north-west wrote:I'm assuming no-one suggesting fire has ever been to Cuvier Shelf. I'd like to see someone try to collect firewood up there in a blizzard.
Do you mean a snow storm??
Obviously I am not familiar with the area but there are places here on the mainland where lighting a fire in snow is damned near impossible
In this instance it was a blizzard. Ie, a long lasting and windy snow storm (at least that's what the forecast was for when I cancelled the walk I had planned for last weekend).
Moondog55 wrote:Perhaps I am pedantic but a snow storm and a blizzard are two very different things, even if the ABC and the BOM often get it wrong.
A blizzard is when the wind picks up already fallen snow and carries it along. A snow storm is snow falling from clouds with a wind.
Having been in both many times I know how different they are
Son of a Beach wrote:I was merely going by the dictionary definition:
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Dictionary.com: a storm with dry, driving snow, strong winds, and intense cold
rcaffin wrote:My 2c: trying to light a fire in the middle of a snow storm is just plain stupid.
Wasting the energy and time to even attempt this is equally just plain stupid.
Darwin's Law.
Cheers
Roger
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