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Poll Question: Do you have a campfire when camping?
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    Posted: 18 Jul 2011 at 3:10pm
With the rising price of firewood, fire bans, global warming, firewood moving bans because of invasive beetles, do you still have a campfire every night while camping?

Or, instead, do you use manufactured fire logs?  Citronella candles?  Fire gel in a ceramic bowl?  A propane firepit?  Something else fire-like?

Or, do you get by without a fire altogether?
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It's not camping without a campfire IMO.  Thanks to the firewood bans, I just buy wood at the park, but it's generally not a bad deal there anyway.  Some places charge a little much, but the state park I hit up Friday was only 5 bucks per crate full.
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Yes I do still have a campfire, unless it is raining.  I actually cook over the campfire.  In Indiana, we must purchase our wood at the campground or provide proof that it has been inspected/approved by the State. (Emerald Ash Boarer)
 
However, in the interest of being "green" I have kept my fires rather small - using only a fraction of the wood compared to my younger days.  I use about 1 to 1 and 1/2 bundles (and they have gotten smaller over the years) per day.
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we use both the mnufactured fire logs and real wood. The manufactured logs get the fire going with no muss or fuss. In this heat right now we normally dont do the fire.
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Yes , we bring wood from home and do a fire every evening we can.
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I have a nice fire every outing temperatures permitting, cetainly is nice to sit around a warm fire on a crisp night and smell the oak wood burning.  Campfire wood can be purchased for almost nothing if you will check with you local saw mills or wood pallet manufactures in the area.  They sell their cut offs to the general public that are too short to use, this is clean oak wood at a cheap price.
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How can you camp without s'mores???
Here in the Northeast one has to buy firewood locally due to beetle infestations. Some states, like New York and Maine, require you maintain a receipt that says the wood was purchased within a certain radius of the burn point. We usually bring kindling, as Georgia fat wood or kiln dried lumber scraps, but leave any left over purchased wood behind.
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And I do like the S'mores alsoTongue!!!  I do buy my wood locally and I think everyone can do the same if U aren't traveling to far to your campground from the city/county that U purchased your firewood.
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Unfortunately, because of severe drought conditions, the parks we camp at have banned open fires..........Cry
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yes, I'm also from Texas and all counties except for 1 have burn bans and It will probably be on the list tomorrow.  Some non sping lakes here are dropping 2 inches per day!!
Just how dry is it in Texas????
 
A buddy out of Longview said he'd killed a mosquito that was carrying a canteen.

A man in Lubbock said the chicken farmers were giving the chickens
crushed ice to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs.

In Lake Palestine , they caught a 20 lb catfish that had ticks on it!


It's so dry in Texas that the Baptists are starting to baptize by sprinkling,
the Methodists are using wet-wipes,
the Presbyterians are giving out rain-checks,
and the Catholics are praying for the wine to turn back into water.

Now THAT's Dry!
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