You hear it before you see it: the thud of rotor blades somewhere down the valley. Your fire is a heap of damp sticks under a tarp twenty metres away, unlit. You run, fumble with the lighter, coax a flame, and by the time there is any smoke at all, the sound has faded over the next ridge. The fire was right. The timing was wrong, and it was wrong…
In this lesson
Preparing a signal fire in advance
How to build it
Common mistakes
Tending and timing a signal fire
White smoke
Dark smoke
Which smoke, when
Three fires in a triangle
Fire as a night signal
The tree torch, and why it is rarely justified
Fire risk and the law
The ground
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The rest of this lesson is in the full course
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