Tinderless fire

[Scythe13]

The other day, AlyBear and I made a fire using no tinder at all. We did so under ideal (indoor) conditions. However, we do plan to repeat the process a few times indoors, and then take it outdoors.

It wasn't anything special that we did. I was teaching AlyBear to split logs with a knife. I kept her splitting them until they were about match stick size. We kept splitting them until some of them were paper thin at one end. This is technically not tinder.

We used a lighter (but are going to try using fire-starter sparks) and lit a couple of the wafer thin ends of the split sticks. They burned pretty cleanly and as you would expect them to.

Since some of the sticks were wafer thin, then up to marker-pen thickness, they burned beautifully until they burned out. The idea was that we would be able to start a fire without that wad of cotton wool, or wire wool, or something like that.

It's an ongoing learning process, but I was very proud of AlyBear for learning to split wood AND working to make a fire not using paper or another tinder source to get it going.

Just thought it would be good to tell everyone about out progress.

Thanks for reading.