Mar 15 • AFTER-ACTION REPORTS
Personal Challenge - Shelter / Fire / Lunch
The shoulder season between winter and spring is tough. Can’t enjoy winter activities and not ready for spring hikes and activities. So I wrote my own shoulder season challenge.
Training Primer: Supported Shelter, flint & steel natural tinder and kindling fire kindle, and cook lunch over the fire.
AAR: The right hand support of my shelter area has been dead and of concern. After I set up a simple supported lean-to shelter with a preconfigured rapid ridgeline and succeeded in placing the black plastic tent stakes, I cut off the widowmaker with an arborist saw. Before that I kindled a fire with flint & steel using local grass, flower tops, and birch bark. The char cloth was a cooked cotton round from previous outings. The platform that was built for previous scenarios was frozen solid and gave the fire a very hard time. Extra kindling and some split hardwood did the trick and although late, cooked my lunch.
I counted on the wood platform from the past exercise to get the fire off the ground. Part of the days mission was to clean up the mess from the winter. That will have to wait and probably be a rake and shovel job. This will probably be the last fire on the snow for this year.
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Personal Challenge - Shelter / Fire / Lunch
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