I loved making fires when I was a kid, in the interior. Seemed easy then.

I just got in from a (little) trapline...it's blowing hard enough that I probably shouldn't have been in the skiff, raining sideways, and generally miserable. Tough fire making conditions today, but while thinking of this thread, I poked around enough to find some relatively dry starter materials. Trouble is the next size up..that stuff is soaked, for the most part.