With campfire bans, we are losing a ritual as old as human civilization
Almost Brown: A Mixed-Race Family Memoir.
It feels trivial to ponder the humble campfire, the smallest of sacrifices, now that burning restrictions are commonplace. Yet the prohibition of this relatively cheap, time-worn social ritual has perhaps meant more than just the absence of singalongs and s’mores. In B.C., we’ve grown used to these bans, spread as they are now across most of the peak outdoor season. They’ve merged with a pattern of cataclysm.
I worked as a professional tree planter for many years, and fire was central to that working life. Tree-planting camps are temporary communities nestled in the backcountry, mainly without access to the grid or cell service. After the generator wound down for the day, there were only candles and headlamps to read by. The only heat came from fire, which was one of few social events in the middle of nowhere.
Fire is nostalgic and elemental, but these days, if I go car camping, chances are I’m packing a CSA-approved facsimile, equipped with pumice stones and gas jets, that I acquired, like many others, as a stand-in for the real thing. A propane firepit, which is allowed under B.C. rules, is convenient, lighting with the flick of a wrist. It doesn’t require me to split logs or to carry water for its dousing at the end of the night.
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