A campfire

A fire, a late hour, a group of people with nothing to do and nowhere to be.

79 questions
  1. When did you last stand in the rain longer than you needed to?
  2. When did you last get up to check a noise at night?
  3. When did you last climb something you were not supposed to?
  4. What are you superstitious about while insisting you are not?
  5. What do you know by heart that has never once been useful?
  6. What could you teach me to do properly in the next ten minutes?
  7. What can you identify by sound alone?
  8. What game do you know the real rules to?
  9. What's the hardest thing you can do with your hands?
  10. What does everyone do wrong that you know the right way to do?
  11. Guess which of us was the loudest child, and why.
  12. Guess who here would carry a spider outside. Why them?
  13. Guess which of us has cried at an advertisement. Why them?
  14. Guess what song the person opposite knows every word to. Why that one?
  15. Guess who here has a collection nobody knows about. Why them?
  16. Guess what the person on your left was like at fourteen. Why?
  17. When did you last build something with your hands that still exists?
  18. When did you last get stung or bitten by something outdoors?
  19. When did you last stand out in the rain longer than you had to?
  20. When did you last swim in water you couldn't see the bottom of?
  21. When did you last get badly lost, and who was with you?
  22. When did you last climb a fence, and what was on the other side?
  23. When did you last sleep outdoors, and what woke you?
  24. When did you last touch a wild animal?
  25. When did you last walk home at 3am, and what route did you take?
  26. When did you last get so cold you couldn't speak properly?
  27. When did you last let a stranger help you, and with what?
  28. When did you last eat something you picked outdoors?
  29. When did you last need a plaster, and how did you earn it?
  30. When did you last hear a noise outside at night and go look?
  31. When did you last take a photograph of the sky?
  32. When did you last dance outside, and what was playing?
  33. When did you last carry someone, or get carried?
  34. When did you last lie flat on the ground outside?
  35. When did you last go into water fully clothed?
  36. When did you last get told off by someone in a uniform?
  37. When did you last go somewhere you'd been told to stay out of?
  38. When did you last fall over in front of people?
  39. When did you last wake up not knowing what time it was?
  40. When did you last shout as loud as you could outdoors?
  41. When did you last cook something over a fire?
  42. When did you last go somewhere because of a photograph you'd seen?
  43. When did you last sit outside in the dark with nothing to do?
  44. What's the worst weather you've ever been happiest in?
  45. What outdoor plan do you always agree to and dread all week?
  46. What are you good at that you've never let anyone watch you do?
  47. What's the most beautiful thing you've seen and didn't photograph, and why not?
  48. What's the pettiest reason you've held a grudge against a stranger?
  49. What do you refuse to do outdoors that everyone assumes you enjoy?
  50. What have you carried for miles that you should have left behind?
  51. What's the best night you've had that started out badly?
  52. Where have you slept badly and still want to go back to?
  53. What did people believe about you at sixteen that you never corrected?
  54. Which of us would last longest out here, and why isn't it you?
  55. What's the worst advice you've given that someone went ahead and took?
  56. What can you not do that everyone assumes you can?
  57. What do you do exactly like your mother and hate noticing?
  58. What are you afraid of that you make yourself do anyway?
  59. What's your method for getting a fire lit in wet wood?
  60. How do you keep warm outdoors when you've dressed wrong?
  61. Teach us how you'd find your way home without a phone.
  62. What could you cook on a single camp stove that would surprise us?
  63. Teach us how you'd pick a swimming spot in a river you don't know.
  64. How do you get into cold water without making that noise?
  65. Teach us how to carry something heavy uphill without wrecking yourself.
  66. What can your body do that you'd have to teach us slowly?
  67. Teach us how to find one thing in tonight's sky.
  68. Teach us how you'd get a lift from a stranger.
  69. Teach us what you'd do first if the power went out tonight.
  70. Teach us how you'd survive one night outside with what's in your pockets.
  71. Guess which of us has slept outdoors most recently, and why them.
  72. Guess which of us gets lost first without a phone, and why.
  73. Do I seem like someone who could spend a night alone in a forest? Why?
  74. Guess which of us has been the coldest in their life, and where.
  75. Guess which of us will be the last one talking at this fire, and why.
  76. Guess who here would be first into the water, and why.
  77. Guess what I'd pack for a week outdoors that none of you would. Why?
  78. Do I seem like someone who knows the names of trees? Why or why not?
  79. When did you last spend a night somewhere with no bed?