Mountain Top Lake Fishing, Camp Cooking And New Overlanding Table Testing.
With the late winter and deep snow totals I wanted to see if I could get up to this little remote lake way up on the mountain. I did get into some snowy patches on the way, but with the help of ARB Air Lockers and low gears, I was able to get my overland rig through it all without much trouble.
The lake was beautiful and so enjoyable to fish I had the place to myself and the birds were singing. I tried a few lures with my spincast rod, then switched to my fly rod. Not a single bite! I think the lake had winter killed and due to the snow on the road had not been re-stocked. Maybe I'll go back in the fall and try again.
I knew I might not catch fish so I came prepared to do some Firebox Stove cooking either way. I prepared a nice lemon, garlic linguine with fresh parsley for dinner and the last meal for so many, steak and eggs for breakfast.
I used the 5" Firebox Titanium Stove on this trip as well as all my other trips this summer. It's holding up great with only minimal amounts of warping. I'm very happy with it and am running a limited production of 100 stoves which will be made available on a first come first serve basis to my email list. Here's a link to get signed up: http://eepurl.com/5-bSP
Okay, I'm headed up top. There's a little lake way up almost to the very top of the mountain.
See if I can get him to just climb right into my hands. Come on, buddy. I won't hurt you. Come on.
It's okay. He's starting to get a little mad, which I didn't want him to get mad. I was hoping
to avoid it. You can see the grass is right there. You can see he let me pick him up.
No need to hold their heads and be all aggressive. They're just practically tame.
And then there's some knobs here, which allows this to extend. Okay, there's a release here.
Allows you to lower. That's your support. So let's go put it on. My muddy tires. Pretty sweet.
Tighten up my little thumb screws. Nice and straight.
And lower the support post. There you have it. Nice little table.
I'm cutting these so I'll be able to feed them in vertically. We're at a little bit of a high
elevation, so we want to have a vertical fire. Let's draw lots of air in. I'm going to be using
the titanium five-inch firebox. Coffee stuff. I think that lake has any fish in it. I think
that it probably winter killed and they haven't had a chance to stock it yet. I've got some really
of this. That's what I had in mind. But I'll have to try it again when I'm at a lake that's
letting me catch some fish. That is really nice.
Good morning. Doing a small Swedish fire torch this morning to get our water boiling.
And what I've learned about Swedish fire torches being used as a pre-fueling method
is that you want to have the sticks fairly close together. I would say a half inch,
between a half inch and three quarters of an inch. If it's starting to look more like an inch,
you're probably a little bit too far apart. The other thing I've learned is that if you put the
points of the wood inward, you'll have a much faster, much hotter fire. If you rotate the wood
around and have the round edges facing inward, that will slow your Swedish fire torch down just
a little bit. We'll just let that warm up. There it goes. But we do still have a flame down there,
up on top of my hash brown and just break that yolk. Let that run down into my hash browns.
firebox. This is the one I've done all the testing in. Let's go ahead and check it out.
Fire grate still looks good. Still folds up good. There's just a slight twist
to some of those panels, but everything still fits together and closes up nice and tight.
Break this down. See how this goes. Loosen that thumb screw. Bring that in.
Pop that into position. Then I can loosen these thumb screws. Get the whole thing off my tire.
Slide that down. Remove the little supports. Put them into their storage position.
If I tighten up these thumb screws, I can use this as a handle. Perfect.
