One of the best things about camping is sitting around a camp fire. In order to enjoy this, one has to master the skill of not only starting the fire, but keeping it going. This is especially important if you are planning on cooking over it. On one trek we were sharing a lean too with 3 others who were on their first day of a 4 day trip. That night we planned on cooking over a fire. Our neighbors asked to use the fire after we were done to cook their steak. So we wrapped up our cooking and turned the fire over to them and went off to do something for about an hour. When we returned it became clear that they did not know how to maintain a cooking fire. Most of the coals were out and their meat was half cooked. Unfortunately for them they planned to cook all their meals over a fire and did not have the foresight to bring a camp stove. Turns out they really didn’t know how to even start a fire, they ass(u)med it would be easy, sure, yes, if you bring a flammable fluid, other than that, not so much. We gave them lessons before we departed, but I often wondered if they didn’t just end up following us out of the woods after the first time they actually tried to start a fire on their own.