Firebox Stove Cooking! Goats & Dogs Backpacking Camping Wilderness Lake Trout Fishing (full trip)

We just stopped to use the bathroom real quick. I'm on about a four hour drive to the trailhead and then we're going to spend a couple of nights up in the high country and see if we can catch some trout. Okay, your turn. You can smell there's grain in there, can't you? You want it. Go chow. Stay. All right, let's go. We're going to go hit probably four lakes, maybe three lakes. Come on, you come up front. Good girl. You take the lead. Best place for you. Ring that noisy bell. All right, let's give this one a try. Wow, that's beautiful. This is very interesting. This is exactly how I found it. I guess somebody has pushed this stick through this hole. I mean, this couldn't have happened naturally, right? Anyway, it's kind of weird. Oh, hey, I got one. Nice. It looks like a cutthroat, which means I'll have to let it go. There he is. See if I can pick him up. He's almost too heavy for this. Beautiful cutthroat. I got to get him back in the water. Don't fall in, Junie. Junie, don't go in it. You got to jump it. It's a hard test for the goats. Goats don't like stuff like this. There goes Levi. There goes Bill. Good goats. Been good at the climb for a while. Ash, you're hiking so fast. I can't keep up. Come along, Levi. Come along, William. Right there. Maybe something like that. I think I'm going to let it rest. I can't wait to bite into that. In fact, some of this I might put on a little longer. Bill, I don't need your help. Go on. Oh, yeah, that's perfect. You cold? Ash is cold. You want a coat? Good morning. A very cold night. And the goats, of course, drove me crazy all night long. They just don't sleep. I don't think goats sleep. The sun is just coming over the hill. Had a very cold night. I didn't stay nearly as warm as I would have liked to have with Junie's help. I think Junie stayed warm. It's nice to have the sun finally come out. It feels so good. Goats are happy, too. No, Ash. There's his plan. Is that what it is? Is it fun? Oh, you, William. Oh, yes, Ash. Time to make breakfast. Bunch of kale. Nice low heat. It's going to work out perfect. A lot of moisture in there. All that moisture just makes it nice and light and fluffy. Wow, it's really good. The kale is really good, and the bacon with the kale seems very complementary. And just the right amount of salt with the amount of bacon that's in there worked out really nice. It's really rich with all that bacon fat in there. Helped me sleep warm. Don't like a bite. Just not catching fish. There's another lake that's not too far from here. Supposedly, it has some kind of algae bloom. It's at least another place to try. Cowboys working some cattle. Dogs are keeping the cows from going up the hill. Every time the cows try to go up, the dogs push them back. Well, that was quite a commotion. Luckily, they're not coming this way, but if I had left for this hike two minutes earlier, they would have been right behind me. Okay, let's go. I'm just going to hope I don't have any run-ins with cows or cowboys or cowboys dogs. All right, we've made it to the lake. Let's see if any of this is fishable. This lake doesn't look any different than the lake I was just at as far as the algae goes. It looks perfect. Maybe those guys were trying to keep me away from this lake because it's awesome, maybe. It is pretty awesome. Good job, Bill. Very nice. Okay, I caught one, finally. Try, try, and try again, I guess. I'll land him up on that. Good size fish. Oh, looks pretty good. Looks pan-sized. Yeah, he's not bad. Definitely pan-sized. Nice looking fish. He'll certainly make a nice dinner. Good boy. Come on, Bill. Nice. I've got this really nice sushi rice that I'm going to cook, and then I'm going to do a lemon butter, lemon butter garlic, kind of a sauce to do over a grilled trout. This is Nishiki sushi rice, so I need one cup of water. I'll use my coffee kit so I can measure. Just spread that out and bring that to a boil. I brought some charcoal with me because the pine that's up here just does not make good hot coals, but throwing this charcoal in will bring the temperature down for now, but then it'll give me a long-lasting, kind of a flywheel for my fire. Right now, it'll cool things off just a little bit. I can get it to go in there without knocking everything off. Now we want this temperature to go way down for 20 minutes. Okay, that worked perfectly. A big piece of charcoal brought the temperature way down, yet it gives that charcoal a chance to get going. It looks like we just have a little bit of ribs to remove on this one. Okay, I think that means our rice is close. Okay, let's take that rice off and let it just sit by and stay warm. It's looking good. Okay, I just turned these beauties over. I'm just going to butter the skin side a little bit. Let's just see if that butter will help crisp that skin just a little bit more. Okay, now I'm going to move them down onto my rice and then I'm going to make my sauce. Take the grill off. I'm just going to put this on just to warm that rice up, just to make sure it doesn't get too far behind. I'm going to bring up my temperature now. Give them a second to get going. Go ahead and move this down. I'm going to put on my fry pan, my saute pan. I'll just leave that right on there. It helps speed up the warming of that butter. In fact, you know what? I'm just going to put this other butter in there, make it a little more saucy. It does look a little more saucy. I didn't really brown the butter like I'd planned to, but it was getting pretty hot and I was worried about my garlic. I just really didn't want to burn my garlic, but that looks really nice. That's a really nice sauce. Over the heat, this will just put up that a little bit. Lemon butter garlic sauce. All the garlic ends up on top. Add our chopped dill. Go ahead and open this fish up. Get a little garlic. Get down into that rice. Oh wow, that is so good. So many flavors. You know, and that dill just adds that little flavor right there at the end. Really nice. I love capers. They go perfectly with this. That is good. That's what trout is supposed to look like. Wow, so delicious. I'm going to go ahead and pack it up and head home tonight. I was planning on staying another night, but I got really cold last night and I want to do it again. You want to go home tonight? Sleep in your bed? Wow, beautiful. On the trail again. Just can't wait to get on the trail again. Levi ate a bunch of dog food and now he's like extra aggressive. Very nice spot. Definitely a Bob Ross painting right there. Just awesome. Good dogs. Come on. See the goats. Goats don't like that. Maybe it was just the bells scaring them.