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My wife (who, in a previous life, did things like take two-week back
country canoe trips with her High Adventure Explorers post in Texas,
with responsibility for food and material planning for twelve 18-year
olds, ie, she can look out for herself) encouraged me to write:
We were car camping once in a rental car and wanted to start a camp
stove. We had very carefully packed matches. Turned out there are two
different kinds of even Ohio Blue Tips, safety- and non. Laura had
packed safety in a match safe. No strike-strip.
We fussed over the notion for several minutes that we had a car with a
full gas tank and a lot of readily available energy in its battery, and
we couldn't figure out how to light a safe fire. What to do?
I extracted a bulb from the brake light and crushed the glass envelope.
I instructed Laura to get in the car and step on the brake pedal when
told to do so. I held a match on the hot filament, lit the match, lit a
candle from the match, etc. We had a nice dinner.
We stopped at a hardware store on the way to the car drop-off point to
get a new bulb. We considered presenting the receipt to the rental
company: "We found that the bulb needed to be replaced..."
Keep track of match type.
David
veeduber@isp.com wrote:
>
> The two basic types of match are those which may be scratched anywhere
> versus the 'safety' type which can on be struck on an abrasive pad
> treated with red phosphorus. The 'strike-anywhere' type are
> preferred since there's no need to provide for the special
> striking-surface.
>
> The surprise came from hearing some folks insist that the
> 'strike-anywhere' type of match was not available, at least to
> them. I assume they are the victim of some do-gooder regulation which
> allows only the sale of 'safety-type' matches in their locale.
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Re: Survival II
