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I'd also suggest learning camping up to like Luke Nichols on his YouTube channel "Outdoor Boys". It's a bit extreme, but at least knowing how to not be completely miserable out in the middle of nowhere is always a nice trick in the bag to have. If nothing else, learning how to start a fire with an empty Bic lighter can be a cool trick to show off to your friends.
Thanks, will do! And I actually do know how to strike a fire up with an empty bic, though finding tinder can be hard.
Oh yeah if you got a knife or a sharp rock you can just scrape off plastic shavings off the lighter to get the small tinder pile set up along with grinding the flint a bit for some of that sweet sparky sparky dust to give it that extra oomph
Oh, didn't know that part! That's handy in a pinch, if there's no dry wood to scrape up into dust.