How To Build The Perfect Fire For Summer Nights In Wyoming

One of the great summertime treats is sitting around a campfire and enjoying s'mores, hot dogs, or other delightful fire foods.

Like most aspects of life, everyone has their style and method of building a fire. Some will use lighter fluid, fire-starter logs, blow torches, lighters, matches, or get old school and rub some sticks together.

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What about the way you set up your firewood?

This topic has been up for debate since the first caveman, who we'll call Larry, discovered how to start a fire. I'm sure his neighbor, let's call him Hal, walked over to Larry's cave and started telling him how HE would build a fire.

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My philosophy has always been the teepee-style campfire.

Most of us have used this style to get the party started. I was scrolling through social media and stumbled across Magician Rick Lax's Facebook Page, where I learned a new fire-building technique.

I'm always up for learning new ways to do something, especially if it saves time and is more efficient.

Rick laid out his bigger sticks of wood as the bottom layer of the structure, then laid another layer in the opposite direction and continued to do this until he had six layers of wood laid out. That's when he added the smaller kindling on top of the structure.

He then took a match and lit the fire.

By stacking the wood in this style, he says the fire will heat all of the logs from top to bottom, and the burn will be much cleaner. This method is great for campfire cooking.

Like I said, I'm all about trying new things, so next time I'm camping, I'll try Rick's stacking style.

Take a look.