Backpacking in King's Canyon

31. We Relax with a Campfire

As evening gets closer we start a fire. You need a permit to have a fire. You must make sure you extinguish the fire completely when you finish before you go to sleep. It will be cold that night and the fire will not only warm you up but provides some light for the dark hours. One additional benefit you achieve is that mosquitoes do not come near an area with smoke. This gives you some freedom to get to sleep without being eaten alive. Later that night the mosquitos arrived in force and we arranged a makeshift tent for the boys using some ground tarps and our tent as one end.