Campfires

[Mobasser]

I have a small fire pit in my backyard. A few times from spring into the latest fall, we'll make a campfire, and sit back and enjoy it.                     My favourite time for this is in the fall, when it's cooler.       On every camping trip I've been on, the campfire is always the gathering place. Folks always like to sit around the campfire, and just talk about things while staring into the fire.                        With a campfire, I'm always reminded of my older brother. We camped out many times by the big pond on our grandfather's farm, and we were allowed to have a small campfire, while we set out lines for catfish.                 I loved a campfire back then, and I still love them now. There's something special about a campfire with family and friends.              Do you like campfires also?

[gim]

I have an above-ground bonfire pit in my back yard.  A lot of my neighbors have one as well.

 

Sometimes when we're in drought there are restrictions in place and they cannot be used.  That hasn't happened this year though.

 

I prefer them on a cooler, crisp evening.  I could never undertsand when someone has one during the middle of summer when its nasty hot out.  lol

 

[flatcreek]

I burn firewood inside on an open hearth brick fireplace in my great room and wood stove in our den. Outside I’ve got a brick bbq pit , fire barrel 55 gallon drum and several areas on the property to build campfires when the need arrives . We keep a fire going when it gets cold, nothing better for pure warmth imo.

[DaubsNU1]

My Brother is a pyro-junkie...he's always got a fire going in fireplace, or the fire-pit out back of his house. He loves it.

 

I'm kind of indifferent when it comes to fires and fire-pits. They are work (finding, cutting, hauling wood), and I'm always concerned about fire getting out of hand.

 

 

[padlin]

I used to enjoy fires, camping and in the fireplace. Once I came down with COPD that ended, I even have to close up the house when the neighbors light up their pits, what a bummer.

 

We camped exclusively in the fall once the kids grew up and we didn’t need to think about school. Nothing like cool fall nights around the fire, at least till the back is frozen and the front is smoldering.

[Functional]

Love em. Used to camp almost every weekend when we were kids in upstate NY and had one nearly every night. Used to also heat our house with wood burning stoves (not quite the same) and learned to love chopping wood with an axe. 

 

Since I moved down south its nearly a death sentence to have a fire in any months that dont have the potential for snow. 

[Susky River Rat]

Nothing says fall like a hoodie, camp fire and some cold beers. There is something calming about the fire. Phones get put away and just enjoy the serenity. 

[TnRiver46]

Got fire pit and one of the solo stoves, pretty cool. 
 

[Bazoo]

I love a good fire. I have a fire ring that I made out of an old tractor rim. But I also will have one without the ring if I want one somewhere else and don't want to move the ring.

 

Something about it is friendly, comforting, relaxing. Not sure why or what. I like to do such things as, talk about hunting & fishing, sharpen my knife, and clean or admire a favorite firearm. Those things seem to just go hand in hand with a fire.

 

I have a cast iron grate that I cook on when using my fire ring. Learning to cook over open fire is something I've been working on for years.

 

I have found that dry cherry wood is about the best wood for cooking over. Get the fire going good and put the grate over it, supported by bricks. Then when it's mostly coals, throw on the steaks (also have done chicken that turned out amazing). I like steak well done so I give it about 10 minutes on the first side, and then 20 minutes or so on the second side, since the coals have died down more.

 

Mmm, it makes this crispy little parts on the edges, seared on the sides, and just a bit of juice inside.

[Jig Man]

I heat with wood so I am hauling wood in and ashes out all the time in cool weather so I really don’t want a campfire.

[Scott F]

I’m a veteran of dozens of fishing trips with groups of friends. While the names of the guys on the trips usually varies, sitting around a campfire in the evenings is a constant. During the day, we split up to fish but the evenings campfire brings us all together.  Definitely one of my favorite things about a fishing trip!

 

[Jar11591]

Not much that is more comforting than sitting by an evening campfire with your people. 

[TnRiver46]

Fire: caveman television 

[GRiver]

 
I have a fire like this one, called a cowboy grill from Bass pro. I put on a cast iron will boiled peanuts hanging over the fire. I like it when it cooler too.

[BrianMDTX]

Before I moved to Texas, I had a huge fire pit that I built back in Maryland. I had over an acre (2/3 wooded) and it was in the open grass field. 
 

Sitting beside the campfire in the fall/winter, smelling the woodsmoke and feeling the warmth in the chill air, looking up at the stars amidst the sparks…that’s living. 

[N Florida Mike]

On 8/20/2024 at 9:05 AM, Mobasser said:

I have a small fire pit in my backyard. A few times from spring into the latest fall, we'll make a campfire, and sit back and enjoy it.                     My favourite time for this is in the fall, when it's cooler.       On every camping trip I've been on, the campfire is always the gathering place. Folks always like to sit around the campfire, and just talk about things while staring into the fire.                        With a campfire, I'm always reminded of my older brother. We camped out many times by the big pond on our grandfather's farm, and we were allowed to have a small campfire, while we set out lines for catfish.                 I loved a campfire back then, and I still love them now. There's something special about a campfire with family and friends.              Do you like campfires also?

Yes. I love them the most in my family. We all used to camp a lot , but weve gotten away from it in recent years.

I had a perfect spot in the Ocala Nat. forest that was remote. No one else there but whoever I was with. We would set up camp, run a trotline for catfish, fry em up, then build a fire and sit around it , me picking my banjo for awhile. Then , having meaningful discussions and enjoying the night sounds and sky.

Nowdays, I try to have a fire out back several times in the winter, but nobody is much interested in it but me…😕

[Randy Price]

I was an ASM in the BSA for years (both sons are Eagles).  I really miss hanging out with the other adult leaders after the kids went to their tents.  We discussed everything from troubled marriages, politics, you name it.  I still really enjoy a camp fire but more so in the early fall than the blazing summer.

[Catt]

On all camping trips for hunting or fishing it was my job to start & maintain the camp fire. 

 

Dad taught me 2 items needed for starting a fire quickly & in most adverse conditions. A good hatchet & a nice piece of fatwood, pine knot, fat pine.