After setting up my Emergency Shelter I set up and kindled a fire using the horizontal raised elevation. I used wind proof matches, and yes I had to use the second staged match. Pure and simple smothered the first match. After the tinder bundle of birch bark and flower tops got going, the batoned birch dry hardwood took well. The tinder was natural, kindling manufactured from dry storage cord wood, and the fuel was the same. Everything in the two stick fire was batoned or chipped with a Fiskers hatchet.