Nearly ruined the Canadian park!

Another crazy (studid?!) thing that happened in our canoe adventures in Canada:

We decided to venture forth into the Canadian wilderness north and east of Michigan by spending a few days in Missinabi Park. We loaded our gear, food and our dog, Tan-Tan and our trusty Grumman canoe and headed to one of our favorite places.

After we canoed down stream for many of miles and portaged a falls, we set up camp on the shore of the lake. It had been rainy and we were cold. After first chopping a few trees down in order to set up our tent, we started a fire. We literally carved our camp site out of the forest .. but being novices in our early twenties, we didn't realize what our deeds could do. Once the first started, the sparks flew upward and landed on nearby tree branches, thus igniting all the surrounding small trees. Had it not been for the fact that it had rained before we arrived, we would have started a humongeous forest fire and we would have been trapped within! Luckily, the damp trees didn't catch and we breathed a sign of relief!