Originally Posted by take-a-knee  Under wet conditions however, you would have to carry a knife large enough to be able to baton (split) wood to get to something dry enough to get a burn going. |
A great way (and quite lightweight) way to get dry wood from wet wood for starting a fire is to take a pencil sharpener. Even wet wood is dry on the inside. All you have to do to get dry starting wood is to run some pencil sized sticks through the pencil sharpener. It will give you a lot of good starting tinder. Once a fire is started it’s easy to get wet twigs started burning.
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