Backpacking Tent Camping | Campfire

When Backpacking and Tent Camping a Campfire is something every true camper loves, there is nothing quite like sitting around a campfire and swapping stories or just getting to know fellow campers with campfire conversations. Here are some things to consider when planning a campfire. The fire pit location should be at least 10 ft. from anything that might catch on fire and at least 20 ft. from your tent or the overhang of trees. Real caution is needed on windy days, Flying embers in the wind are very dangerous. On a windy day if you see that flying embers are coming near anything combustible, beware when they land the wind will easily feed and ignite them. Never keep a fire burning with sparks or embers blowing out of sight. Take this advice don't learn from a terrible experience, that you might not live through.

Campfire cooking can be elaborate or really simple depending on the equipment and supplies you are willing to carry. Your campfire recipes can vary from anything you can cook at home to simple recipes using just a stick, a tin cup, or tin foil. A couple of simple examples, (make that 3 examples) are smores, a cup of soup (dried soup mix or canned soup), and my favorite Hobo Stew. The first two almost everybody knows and I'll give you the recipe for Hobo Stew here. You'll need a piece of tin foil about 12 x 14 inches, use more if you need to, one potato cut in bite-size chunks, A vegetable cut in bite-size chunks, one serving of meat or fresh fish if you caught any. Put everything in the center of the tin foil, the way you wrap it is important it needs to be steam tight. Pick the foil up by the corners so that a loose fold (don't crease it) runs across the short way. Now fold and crease about 1/2 inch of the foil at the top to close it, fold and crease again at least 3 times. Put it down, fold and crease the ends the same way so that you end up with a closed envelope that has all the ingredients inside. If your not sure that it's steam tight, use more foil and wrap the whole thing again. OK now your ready to cook, but don't put it right in the campfire. Now I can tell you about some campfire cooking techniques, for hobo stew and other campfire foil recipes. Food that is cooking on a campfire wrapped in tin foil, doesn't need flames, just heat. Put campfire food wrapped in tin foil on hot coals, a hot rock, or a campfire grill out of the flames. Please leave comments or suggestions as to the survival of the Backpacking Tent Camping - Campfire Blog depends on it Thanks.