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Again, with that deadpan expression and his eyes never leaving that bumpy, dusty access road, our driver replied nonchalantly, "Oh... they gonna die.  Even WE don't do that stuff in "the old way.  They're nuts."

  Back in my backpacking days 4 of us had just come back from hiking Isle Royale. We were staying at a State Park campground.

  We met some local 1st Nation people who were camped there too for some event.

It started raining steadily and when evening came we struggled to get a good fire going. My buddy, who was 3 sheets into the wind decided he was going to go down and ask how THEY had gotten a roaring fire going?

  The next thing we see is two old Ojibway guys and him coming back to our campsite. Our buddy says " There going to show us the Ojibway method of fire building"  ;)

One of the old guys had a beer can in his hand. He steps forward POURS the beer on the fire and quickly steps back :-?

  The fire bursts into a roaring flame that ignited all the damp wood! We said WHAT the hell was that?

He laughed and said, " it was COLEMAN fuel, that's what the Ojibway WE know use now". We had a good laugh about that.

  Every time I see someone struggling with a campfire that comes to mind.