Man in the Creek Drill

So this is going to be my entry for the Man in the Creek challenge. I guess that the idea is to pretend that you've fallen in the water and gotten wet and you have to start a fire to warm yourself up using man-made tinder and swallow it. So I never before used to carry any man-made tinder. I thought I guess I was above that. I know it sounds kind of stupid but I didn't like using man-made tinder. I was always trying to use tinder from the bush and that's great and that's what i continue to do still but i realize now that you do need man-made tinder for an emergency no one is above that no one's better than that and i'm glad that i've realized that it's it's important so i made up one it's just very basic it's an old uh urine bottle from like uh doctors i've uh used electrical tape on the outside and then i put also a ranger band on the outside so the ranger band i guess you could use as a fire starting aid if you needed to the container is waterproof inside i have two of the fake fatwood uh shaving like they're pressed from like walmart or whatever i've got a pack of matches i've got this this tab it's like a fire in the wet tab or whatever it's all chemicals but that'll go up no matter what so that's all i have in there it's not big but it can get me by like it for a couple of times. If I need to, I can replenish it when I get home. To simulate this challenge now, it is very cold this morning. And just to show you, I do have gloves with me and I was wearing, my hands are pretty cold. I guess if you have trouble touching your pinky and your thumb together, it's starting to be borderline. You can get hypothermia anyways. I know it's a long stretch, but anyways, it is a little difficult to touch too. It's not like I'm saying I'm freezing or anything but my hands are a little numb so they're the dexterity isn't as as good as they could be so i'm going to pack all this stuff back up put it in my backpack as for the challenge and go and gather my materials and see how long it takes me i did this once before it took me 10 minutes we'll see today how long it takes all right it's 9 35 and i'm starting now okay it's 9 43 it took me about eight minutes to do that my hands actually hurt from grabbing the sticks They're so cold. OK. Hope I got enough. All right. Go. Go on. Go. Hope I got enough prep. My hands don't want to work. Go on. Go. Go. I'm going to use this wet fire one. If I'm not mistaken, I've got to get to waist-high flames. I don't know if I'm going to be able to do it with this prep. That wet fire, it's called, but the chemical fire thing I use work really good. I'm going to grab a couple more of those. It's been 10 minutes so far, so the last time I did it, I did it in the same place. I'm using oak, by the way, and the last time I did it, I did it in the same place, but It was a hot day and dry. Today there's a ton of frost everywhere. Everything's wet and my hands are actually cold. So that makes a difference. It's been almost 11 minutes. It's about mid-thigh. Yeah, I'd call that good right there. Flames are coming up to like about there. my waist is here. So in total, 11 minutes. 11 and a half minutes with cold hands. But that's the whole point. Cool.