If you are at all 'close' you are GOING to have holes from embers. I don't even want to be near one at all and always want to be upwind. That is extremely difficult in the mountains when the wind is swirling from every direction.
It was swiveling from N to SW... very annoying, and a good example of why you don't want to camp close by.
Very handy for re-heating coffee in the morning. Ahh.
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Five Basic Principles of Going Lighter (not me... the great Cam Honan of OZ)
“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.” ~ Gen. George S Patton
At least eight car lengths, good advice for hammocks and driving.
"If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done." - L Wittgenstein
Far enough for regular volume speech to be a mumble. Not because I slumber early, but because that's about far enough that I don't worry about embers. I'm usually the last at the fire.
Enjoy and have fun with your family, before they have fun without you
I'm typically a good distance away, just because of the position of the trees to the fire rings. However, I've been watching some bushcraft/survival videos and they often have the fires pretty close to themselves and they are using a heavier tarp than what most of us use. Often they are reflective emergency tarps to reflect the heat from the fire to where they are sleeping. Still amazing (and a little jealous) of seeing them use a fire so close for heat.
- Clyde
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