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Do you enjoy outdoor camping? Avid campers answer is yes. Do you enjoy outdoor camping without camp fire? The first answer will be no.

The basic enjoyment of outdoor camping is with the building of campfire. The campfire offers the best outdoor camping experience to the camper.

The heart of camping is the campfire; what ever may be the purpose, it can be the need of warmth from the night coldness or the cooking requirements or the ambience campfire.

Campfire set up safety tips:

• If you are camping in an authorized campsite, check for campfire pit. If your campsite has any campfire pit, then your work of setting up a camp fire is half done. If your campground does not possess any campfire pit, it’s your responsibility to set up a campfire pit for a safe campfire.
• The construction of fire pit is also very important; the construction of fire pit has certain important steps. Dig the soil to 3 meters and make sure you do not have any dried debris around the campfire. Place all the debris in the campfire pit properly, misplacement of the debris may start a blow out as the debris may fly out of the campfire pit area and fly on to the camping area. Place some rocks around the camping pit and make sure all your campfire ingredients are inside the rock arrangements.

Campfire is a fire lit at a camping site and is one of the most popular features of camping.

But you should be very careful while building a campfire. Without proper precautions it will be very dangerous.

A certain level of skill is required to correctly put up a campfire, to stay it going, and to observe that it is correctly extinguished.

Most of the areas have limitations on fires, so before going to build a campfire you need to confirm with the regulating authority of the region you are planning for camping to verify whether a campfire is permissible or not and if so, if an approve is necessary.

In order to build a campfire you need certain things. These are the things which will be useful to build a safe and successful campfire and to keep it going.

• Match box or lighter
• Paper
• Small and large sticks of dry wood
• Bare, smooth ground
• A large bucket of water

Along with the above tools, you need to bring a small hand axe, folding saw and a sharp knife when camping. You will need these things while starting a campfire.