What's the best way to start a fire, with only readily available natural materials from the outdoors?

A prime example of the importance of life skills. All that education and limited usage for it. It's a good thing the situation wasn't survival oriented.

I guess there were no Boy Scouts at this party, as any of the Scouts from my Troop would have had the corn field blazing in under 10 minutes ;)

The "rubbing the sticks together" ruse takes forever.

You need a bow (a stick with a string tied across both ends), another stick and a block with some tinder to get a fire going without matches, or flint/steel

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you had gathered the necessary materials and things were dry. you just lacked the will to think and work hard at solving the challenge. if the flints were real, they always give off sparks. small little sparks but sparks. after that the initial kindling must be separated until it is like a fine ball of hair. with a couple of less fine balls to follow and corn stalks would should be added and working your way up to wood. blowing hard on the initial effort to ignite the first ball is crucial. gotta blow on it. a couple of people could have helped with that. the point is, you have to learn to do it just so and you have to believe you will succeed. may take two or more hours to learn. try again and post the results. obviously, its doable. lol

Use the wood sticks you mentioned and rub hard until they are really hot. Then you get a dry leaf and put it overy the hot areas and you blow on it. It is difficult to make it work, but the friction can turn into heat energy if you keep trying.

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It can be done with a soda can and a bar of chocolate.

The chocolate polishes the bottom of any soda can to make it very shiny. The dome shape can give the sunlight a focal point similar to a magnifying glass. Focused on a piece of newspaper or tinder can produce a fire.

See the websites to find out more.

Also, if you were living in the north where ice were available, you could fashion a lens in the shape of a magnifying glass and reproduce the same effect. The 3rd link is for more on that.

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Rub 2 dry sticks together you need patience though as it takes a while and you need to blow now and then to help it as it starts to smoke.

a small bow drill would have worked, it could easily start a fire in a few minutes

there is a reason why the art of making fire has disappeard. its because its so bloody hard. we've invented lighters now and i say use them lol.

I would have said sticks being rubbed vigourously and dried grass .....