[pct-l] Fires

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good afternoon,


I whole-heartedly agree with Ken.  I hiked SoCal in ’07, a very dry year.  I
was so concerned about fire that I changed all my menus to food I could eat
without cooking or heating.  I didn’t even carry a stove or pot.  I had
matches in my pack, but the only time I used fire was inside the shop at
Hikertown when I borrowed a Bic to melt the end of a piece of nylon cord.  That
was it.

Conversely, I talked to one thru-hiker who bragged that he, and his posse,
had built a campfire every night on the entire trip, border to border.

Steel-Eye

-Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

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