Life is good when you're in a wild place…so beautiful! Basically, perfect! A secluded emerald green alpine lake filled with a vigorous population of trout! Yet I had the place to myself! It's hard to believe that such an experience is even possible. In fact, the experience is so different from everyday life that when I think back and remember being there it feels more like a dream. Everyday life moves so fast, but then you come back to a place like this and find it hasn't changed. (I sometimes see the same animals) It's almost timeless. When you're there, time slows down, and the days seem longer. So, there's no reason to be in a big hurry-it's easy to do a lot in just one day. Maybe that's why it's so fulfilling...I don't know... There's certainly something special about camping.
I took my dogs and goats way up high, almost to the top of the mountain. We hiked into a beautiful secluded alpine lake under a snowy cliff face, for some epic early season camping. I had a really good time trout fishing the emerald green waters…which eventually provided dinner. I caught a beautiful little cutthroat rainbow hybrid trout known as a cut-bow. I gathered a few sticks and deployed my GEN 2 Titanium 5 inch Firebox Stove to cook up my catch. "Bacon fried green beans under fresh caught Cut-Bow trout. Gently seasoned with sea salt, and freshly ground black pepper. Juice squeezed from 1/2 a lemon, then sprinkled with fresh thyme leaves. I carefully cooked everything in the Firebox Ultra Cook Kit. Starting with the handleless sauté pan to fry the bacon. Then later adding the shallow cowboy plate on top to finish the trout "Dutch Oven style". My intention for cooking the trout was to bring the heat up very slowly, then to stop cooking at precisely the correct temperature. The concept definitely proved itself as the trout was cooked quite evenly-it was extremely moist and tender…almost felt like it was melting in my mouth. The flavors were light, clean and fresh! For sure, one of my top camp cooked meals ever!
After enjoying my trout dinner, I tried my hand at fishing again and caught a very nice cutthroat with my first cast. I thought I had captured it on video but, when I reached to stop the recording, I could see it hadn't started. By that time the trout had been released and I couldn't seem to catch another.
I slept very soundly under my 8 1/2' x 8 1/2' Dyneema tarp shelter with my two dogs. The goats were tied out just behind us. In the very early hours of the morning the birds were going off, making all kinds of racket till about 6am. I finally gave up and got out of bed…at which point they quieted right down, as if they had accomplished their goal. Lol!
I enjoyed a wonderful cup of fresh ground coffee, while I made breakfast, biscuits and gravy, from scratch. I even baked the biscuits in the (Dutch oven configured) Firebox Ultra Cook Kit. I added freshly chopped rosemary to make this meal almost as gourmet as my dinner had been. I got the idea to add rosemary from my restaurant experience. One of my responsibilities was to make soup every day. I found that rosemary was very delicious in cream-based soups like butternut squash, wild mushroom, even corn or clam chowder. It worked! My biscuits and gravy were very delicious!
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12 окт 2024
