My partner is a real stickler on building fires. He likes to chop wood, and this seems to give him something to do. I like the warmth of a good fire, and he uses it to cook food and boil water. We sometimes burned our human waste in it, causing quite a stink, but eliminating the pollution problem. Other snow campers will just leave their waste in the snow, contaminating the runoff and thus the drinking water downstream. Many say it makes little difference, but we do try.

Here we burn the end of a log, and push it further into the fire pit as it burns. April 8, 1979