This story really stuck with me. I don’t do ‘wilderness’ but to this day I make sure to ALWAYS have matches with me. ALWAYS.
“It was cold.” We read this every year about this time. Students always ask to turn the heat up!
If it gets cold enough, matches won't help. At one point I got a box of mil-surplus trioxane packs, which I've tested in my fireplace as a fire starter.