Smoking in strong wind is as much a sport as an art. Finding pockets behind a tree, wall, rock, or berm where you can relight is part of it. Keeping the direct wind out of the bowl to keep from simply burning up the tobacco is another. If you are lighting up with matches, you are really in the big leagues. When it works, it can be satisfying if not relaxing. Other times it is frustrating and makes you exercise your cussing vocabulary. If you can finish the bowl with some satisfaction, and repack, and relight, you have entered the major leagues. My dad loved his pipe and he was a life-long sailor and outdoor guy, and he could smoke a pipe in the wind by rote. He was long past thinking about it; he had it down. He could catch the line from a boat coming to the pier, throw a clove hitch over the post, and clench and puff at the same time.
