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Starting a Fire in the Rain
It's raining again. Could you survive in the wet and wild if you needed to? Conveniently, here's a post from Mungo Says Bah, with his instructions on how to start a fire in the rain.
Though the general principles may seem obvious (use dry things if you can find them, set them up in a dry place, start with small kindling and work your way up to bigger stuff), there's plenty here to make note of, including (and I quote):
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Grabbing a few scoops of pine resin can help keep a fire blazing once it has started
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birch bark: don't worry if it is wet. Just shake it dry, rolling it about to rough it up into smaller, broken up pieces - the birch oil that preserves the bark will allow the kindling to catch fire easily.
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if it is hard to find dry wood, find dead twigs that are away from the ground - either dead branches hung up in other trees, or dead standing saplings and trees.
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if you only have dead wood that has been lying on the wet ground, trim away the bark and shave off the surface wood. The middle of the branches contain dry wood that you can shave into feather sticks or simply fine, dry strips.
More fire-starting suggestions:
* starting a fire with steel wool and a battery
* make your own waterproof matches
* and believe it or not, how to start a fire using a can of Coke and a chocolate bar
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