There are scores of methods for starting fires without matches. One method involves using a hot spark or swedish fire tool and some char cloth. here is a great video on how to make your own char cloth.

You can start the loop anywhere, but I recommend parking on the access road just south of the Wausau School Forest on County Hwy KK and picking up the loop there. Please see the trail map and brochure for more information about this excellent community resource.

Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends — hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism — these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility — a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world; duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.

This is the price and the promise of citizenship.