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Move a fire - PEM BB traditional.sand.movefire

BB traditional skills - sand badge
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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEM curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the sand badge in Traditional Skills.

Relocating your campsite might mean making a new fire when you arrive.  What if you brought the fire with you?  Let's learn how to carry fire!

 
 

Here's one way to do it:


Minimum requirements:
  - Carry an ember or coal for 20 minutes
  - This bb can only use materials that existed 200 years ago

Provide proof of the following as video (<2 min):
  - Your fire carrying system
  - A smouldering coal/ember in the system
  - Walk around with it for 20 minutes
  - Igniting tinder after 20 minutes
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Sawdust and disintegrated wood (brown rot) such as you find heaped at the base of a hollowed tree, are excellent for this purpose as well. The latter seems to be superior, but the former will work.
 
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