Butch Cassidy and his “Wild Bunch” hid from the law in these same Utah caves.
Perhaps the most serious risk with an inside fire is that you might
burn your shelter. I’ve made hundreds of inside fires, and for many years
I’ve never had a problem. But once, on the coast of Alaska, I awoke one
morning to find several-foot-high flames reaching up through my shelter’s
driftwood roof. Had I not been only feet from the ocean, the whole shelter
would’ve burned down.
Driftwood made a great shelter on the Alaskan coast, but nearly burned down when my
inside fire grew too big.
(^102) | Survive!