I am Chris’ Camp FireBug. My goal is to experience the world and your campfires, fire rings, and outdoor moments with your friends and family. I carry with me a small tube with campfire ashes going back 100+ years. For years, we were a “Cub Scouts and Boy Scout” family and loved to camp and hike. I have collected ashes for decades, and being a former scouter and a former Cub and Boy Scout leader, I pooled all my ashes together along with others' campfire ashes. When we left scouting, we left a portion with our old troop and pack. But we wanted to give our tradition and memories to the world and other fellow Scouters, families, and others throughout our small planet.
I said, “Little Fire Bug, go out and take these ash with you and share them with the world and make new friends and mormies each person, their families and friends. Remind your new friends, these ashes carry memories: stories, laughter, sadness, love, family times, friendship, survival, warmth, and history.”
Please enjoy me and help bring these memories to everyone. Please keep giving me warmth at the campfire, adding my ashes to your fire. In the morning or before you go, give me a small (preferably dry) amount of ashes, then send me on my way.
The Campfire Ash Ceremony is a tradition that was supposedly started by Baden-Powell to highlight the bond among Scouts worldwide The basic idea is that ashes from a campfire are collected and sprinkled into the next campfire, thus there’s a common thread that binds the events and the participants By keeping a running log, a “campfire pedigree” is created that lists lineage of the current ashes.
Traditionally, only those present at the campfire or particular invent carry away ashes from that ceremony.
“We carry our friendship within us in these ashes from other campfires with friends in other lands.
May the joining of the dead fires with the leaping flames symbolize the unbroken chain that binds Family, Friends, and Scouts worldwide.
With greetings from the Bradshaw Family, loved ones, friends, and scouts everywhere, these ashes have continuously been carried around the globe since 1907 These ashes have been taken by friend, families, Scouters, military personnel, and others around the world, and have come from fires kindled in 62 countries:
Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Columbia, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, England, Falklands, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guam, Guatemala, Holland, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Korea, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malasia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad, Tunisia, Turkey, U.S. Virgin Islands, Vietnam, Wales, and forty-nine (49) of the fifty (50) United States of America.
Please feel free to add your fires to this log and page I will add them to the master list and will do my best to post and update them If you wish, feel free to email me at sam.liam75@gmail.com if there is any problem We still have a small amount of ashes that we are keeping to continue to add to, and just in case something happens to the traveling stash, we can replace them.
They have come for hundreds of family campfires,
They come from hundreds and hundreds of unit campfires
2 Girl Scout Senior Roundups
15 National Jamborees,
23 International Jamborees, World Jamborees,
8 Powder Horn courses,
150 Wood Badge courses, and
both the 50th and 60th Wood Badge Reunions at Gilwell Park.
They have traveled to Gilwell Park 30 times.
And, they traveled to the Moon and back with Apollo 15.”
To see the history of the ashes trail, follow the link below:
http://standready.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/111YearsOfCampfireAshes-2018-1.pdf