How we learned to start a fire without a Match

We spent a wonderful afternoon learning how to start a fire without matches.

Yup we are now that cool.  We learned 5 different ways to do it using birch bark, ferrocerium rod, char cloth, flint, striker, and char cloth.  

Here is a picture of the dried birch bark, fat wood, my knife and the ferrocerium rod.

The fat wood scrapings catching on fire.

The jute twin catching on fire.