Sleeping In The Dirt... It Could Be Worse.

And a way to make it better.

I’ve done my fair share of sleeping in the dirt, under juniper trees scrounging for shade, in parking lots, gravel pits, bombing ranges, in the bed of pickups, god-forsaken ridgelines, mosquito-infested swamps, and about every other place in nature you can think of.

What are some of the worst sleeping experiences I’ve had on fires? On my first fire as a…