You don't have to be in stealth mode to set up the Dakota fire hole. This handy skill also works great during gale force wind conditions or whenever you want to minimize your camping footprint. Now let's move on to the video you've been waiting for.
You don't have to be an expert survivalist to appreciate the wonders of stealth camping. It's easy to master the art of a Dakota fire hole and once you've learned it, you can camp almost anywhere without disturbing nature.
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I did this one time on a camping trip in college – my buddies and I dug out a stealth fire and put some flat stones over the top so we could cook or heat water for coffee.
I wish they’d stop using the word “stealth” because no fire is stealthy. There is smoke, there is flame, there is smell. Yes, you can do you’re best to hide the fire, but anyone above you may still see it. And anyone downwind of you can likely smell the smoke and cooking food. So building a Dakota fire pit will help hide the flame, but it will do little to nothing about smoke and smell.
Why don’t ya get a hold of yourself and stop bugging out?
Mike Keeling-Smith
Greg Lievers
Kennedy this is for the time you said you wanted to dig a hole for a fire lol
Abbie Perrott
Is that a Dakota fire hole?
Hahaha the guy in the videos a bit of a laugh
Brought to you by the Native Americans thousands of years ago
Lonnie Garrett Tyler Nelson
Yes it is. And they work well. But you have to be in the right place to dig without hitting major tree roots. The soil needs to be soft enough to dig. So in the woods, with a lot of trees around you might not be the best place. After all, you don’t really want to expend a days energy on digging a hole.
Amanda Hicks
Dakota hole fire .
Elijah Foux
Cool beans.
Ha! I love alfie asthetics!
That guy in comedy
looks like what modern stove tech calls a rocket stove.
Dakota Fire Pit. Very good for minimizing the amount of wood needed
When I was a kid, we called a below ground fire with two holes an “Apache” fire.
Seth Von’Zombie Nick Q
That was awsome cuz. I love that kind of stuff. Cant wait to teach it to my kids…….just in case. You need to check out the swedish fire torch……awsome.
Mark A Hernandez
Taylor Howser
As narrator says, this is not a strictly smokeless fire, but that’s largely due to how you feed it. If you drop fuel into the top of the burn hole then you’ll naturally get more smoke because you’re pyrolizing material faster than the smoke can be consumed, even with high air movement. Of you add the fuel from the air hole, as with a rocket stove, you reduce the smoke production immensely! (because the smoke is consumed as it’s produced, in the presence of high heat and high oxygen…SCIENCE!)
Carrying a high-efficiency fire pit or a rocket stove (or TLUD) will make the Dakota fire pit unnecessary, but then that’s one more thing you have to pack and carry. So, it’s time or energy. Choose your own adventure!
Nathan Ross Minick
Steven Vaca
Josh Minick
Anthony Michael Florez-Vaughn
Listen to this guy
He’s funny
If you do it right, it’s an in ground rocket stove. More efficient burn more heat less smoke.
Veronica Iglesias
Bennett Dryden
Try digging a hole in the SW deserts. Hard as concrete with rocks under. It can be done, but very difficult with a camp shovel.
If it has smoke..I can find you..every time
The commentary was great make it big enough to fit your whole arm in like a cheap$#%&!@*lmfao
There’s a reason they call it a “Dakota” for pit… doesn’t work so well in the desert
Great job on the narrating 😀
True mad them in the 70’s in the bush war
They work very well