2020-010 | OUTDOORS SAFETY & TENT COOKING

OUTDOOR COMMON SENSE TIPS: Never ever cook inside an enclosed space like a tent. Escaping gas or flammable vapors might accumulate inside and would cause first-degree or second-degree burns and destruction of equipment. Synthetic materials used for shelters, jackets, sleeping bags are made from petrol products and would be consumed by flames quickly.

To prevent from being forced to cook inside tents, choose your campsites that are not windy and exposed. Exposure to wind chill steal away heat from your flame and will make your cooking a haphazard task. As much as possible, stay away from exposed peaks and ridges.

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December 18, 2017

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BUSHCRAFT’S TRUE PRACTITIONERS ALWAYS use the terrain for their advantage. They are smart enough to evade exposed areas as a principle and would never establish a campsite there just because it harbored a scenic landscape. They would just admire the scene but they would never stay there. The best they would do is take a video or a set of photographs and move on to a sheltered place. 

Why do they not think like the rest? Simple. They have experienced that before and they would never let themselves be invited again by amateurs who do not know how to choose the best campsites. Peaks, saddles and ridges are not the best places to camp. These places are so exposed that it is regularly battered by winds, hail, rains and that usual wind-chill that make your camping miserable.

Because it is so exposed, you are forced to stay all day and night inside your tent. Even the normal biological functions of defecating and urinating seems to be an uphill battle against the shivering environment. Most likely, because lighting up a stove seems to be a tricky process out in the open that you moved your camp stove inside the tent. The inside of a tent becomes your sanctuary where you cook your food. 

In cramped spaces such as a tent, you are bound to tumble things around and let us hope it is not the top-heavy pot balanced atop a camp stove. If you do that the flame might spread on your tent, your sleeping bags and nylon apparels and causes damage. You might even burn yourself from the tiny flames you touched while putting it out as it eats your melting tent floor, sleeping bag or clothes. You might even scald yourself from the water you boiled or the sausage you fried in oil.

The most dangerous thing is keeping your stove inside while you slept or while you are out to enjoy the scenery. The valve might be defective and caused a leak which lets fuel escape into the insides of your tent. In the case of sleeping dead drunk you might not see the light of the next day due to breathing in poisonous gases. Maybe the escaping gas have accumulated below the roof of your tent that lighting a naked flame caused it to explode in a small fireball leaving your hair and eyebrows singed and a big hole on your tent. 

It is very important then to choose the best campsite which is sheltered and not too high. In bushcraft, we opt those that is found below the tree line. Security wise, we cannot be skylined and observed from afar. We can enjoy our cooking in the open and a small social gathering without having to turn our backs to the wind. 

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WARRIOR PILGRIMAGE BLOG, personified by this writer, is synonymous with the Outdoors, since Bushcraft and Survival is its niche. Safety and Security are its bedrock when it ventured into organizing outdoor events that involved people as in adventure/pilgrimage guideships and seminars; and explorations and expeditions. 

Through tutorship, experience, folk knowledge and good old common sense, this writer was able to collect useful information which he is currently documenting in a book titled, ETHICAL BUSHCRAFT. He shares some of this information and knowledge in his training sessions; in his social-media account; and in this blog.

 

Photo Nr 2 from Barco Reale