Are campfires needlessly destructive to the environment through people collecting deadwood to make them and the ground they burn? Should everyone just use a gas camp stove instead?
>>2870513no.
Honestly depends on the trail and weather.In high traffic areas you are gonna be hard pressed to find any ground wood to make a fire anyways, and cutting trees is frowned upon.Plus, 90% of the time the weather will be mild enough to the point you dont need a fire anyways and can get away with your camp stove for cooking.That other 10% is the issue though. I was stuck in a shelter with some through hikers in the smokies during a blizzard, but had the foresight to gather sticks the night before so me and my brother got a fire going for a couple hours which provided more of a morale boost than anything else, none the less it kept us from freezing our asses and fingers off until the blizzard calmed down.Just dont be a greedy dickhead making a bonfire during a dayhike imo.
>>2870529Also, if less traveled areas, making fires can be genuinely good for the environment as you clear dead tree litter off the trail or from the tent area.Plus. You cant beat a fire roasted meal. Knorr pasta could never.
>>2870513campfires are negligible unless you count forest fires
I dont like how the whites show up and say "hey! you cant make a fire here >:(" after they ran their 5000 pound concentration camp oven with wheels on it 365 days a year.How is gas any better when we are releasing that carbon from 300 million years ago? the tree or the branches you found are from the carbon cycle from only a few years ago, that makes sense. The deep past carbon gets injected in to the system permanently and the whites are too stupid and arrogant to admit this. The white american nazi gas chamber police would smile and threaten to or actually put you in the concentration camps because you are doing something they don't control.
>>2870573go take your fart fetishism elsewhere retard.
>>2870513My fires are demure and modest and photogenic and good.But morons insist on big green wood fires that make a huge mess and frequently cause forest fires, so I can’t get mad when fires are banned, even if it pisses me off that idiots have so little discernment that bans are necessary.For the first 20 years I would do backcountry camping, I carried strike anywhere matches and a cooking pan, and never a stove, but now I take a stove because half the time the forest jannies have had to ban fires to keep dumbfucks from starting up the whole forest. Frustrating as hell.
>>2870573>nazi gas chambernever existed reddit anon but good try.
>>2870573>The white american nazi gas chamber policeWhat?
