How to Set Up Campfire Seating

Video Transcript

" Hi, this is Bruce Lessels from Zoar Outdoor on behalf of expertvillage.com. We’re going to talk about making a campfire and taking down a campfire and campfire safety. So once you have a good campfire going the next thing you’re going to want to do is setup some comfortable seating around it so that you can enjoy it for the evening. One of the first rules about setting up campfire seating is you want to setup your seating on the up wind side of the fire so people aren’t having to breathe the smoke from the fire that’s being blown down wind. Of course wind is inevitably changing all the time so the smoke may move and may affect different parts of the seating arrangement at different times but there’s generally a more down wind direction and that’s a good place not to setup any campfire seating. There are bunch of different ways to create seating for a campfire, if you have some old logs you can find in the woods or some wood to sit on, that can be nice and comfortable and can provide a bench for a few people to sit on. Cooler, if you’re car camping or canoe camping and you have a cooler for your food. These comfortable camp chairs are a great idea if you have room to carry them in a car again or in a canoe and if you have less room in your backpack or something one of these crazy creek type chairs can be a good option as well. But either way make sure you setup your seating far enough away from the campfire so that people aren’t going to be getting sparks in their faces or on their clothes a lot and so that people can enjoy the warmth but not be in too much of danger from the fire itself."