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One of the many idiosyncrasies of the English language. The sentence > Don't make fire rings where they already exist means both: 1. If there is an existing
by coherentpony 3y ago
One of the many idiosyncrasies of the English language.
The sentence
> Don't make fire rings where they already exist
means both:
1. If there is an existing fire ring, do not re-use it. Make a new fire ring somewhere else instead; and
2. If there is an existing fire ring, please re-use it. Do not make a new fire ring somewhere else instead.
What they _meant_ was the second interpretation, and not the first one.
- the_svd_doctor 3y agoThis took me a while. I think the #1 is what most people would understand.
- Zak 3y agoI understood #2: if there is a fire ring, do not make another fire ring (implied: use the existing one).
- solardev 3y agoI understood #3: "Just don't make fire rings anywhere because nobody knows anymore. Even the archaeologists aren't sure where the old ones came from." Besides, we're down to like, what, 4 days a year where the fire risk is low enough? Bring a camp stove and a LED candle :)
- alistairSH 3y agoPretty much this for much of the US. Fire risk is just too high, even if rings exist. Use a camp stove. If you really want a fire pit, go to a non-dispersed/non-backcountry campground that has nice large fire pits in cleared areas (still not zero risk, but less risk than some of the janky small rings I’ve come across).
- epiccoleman 3y agoI like the stupidly literal interpretation that you should not make a fire ring exactly in the same spot as an existing fire ring, but that any other spot, even abutting an existing fire ring, is permitted.