Pine Ridge Camp

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Pine Ridge is over 8200 feet elevation, the snow is finally about gone in the area, I open this camp. Cleaning up and setting up, campfire and cooking, and setting up sleeping arrangements. Featured gear by http://wildernessinnovation.com Poncho Shelter System, Campfire Cookin Sticks. Meal with Southern Grits, Pork Fillet and bacon. Building a fire pit.

Tags: Fire,fire pit,camp maintenence,building stone fire pit,camp,camping,outdoors,poncho,poncho shelter,hammock,campfire cookin sticks,lodge cast iron,sprongs,merkwares,spring camping,grits

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well perry peacock with willis innovation I'm up here again another week another camp and I've been driving around about an hour and a half to find this one I'm right up here on the ridge probably nice place a bunch of pines and such and this is looks like it was a camp that was used probably hasn't been used this year probably last time was last fall and the the fire pit overhears mounded up clear phul junk everywhere if i should have taken a picture before even started but i've already probably hauled a wheel will bear a fuller ashes and coles out scattered in the trees and bushes here but i'm going to clean all this stuff up here and i kind of enjoy doing that sort of thing clean up the Joe kind of cleaned things up a little bit give me a little fire brewing i'm going to show you i'm going to hang my hammock up over in the trees over here to the northeast of me right here so i'm thinking i'm going to put my hammock up right here between I big pine right there and this little short one but this will be about right for me right in here the grounds nice and soft from all the buying debris over the years I just clean up some of these sticks and stuff roll that rock back out of the way and I'll get busy here and get this thing hung up right here and then i'll have my bed already before nightfall which is kind of unusual because I always wind up playing around too much and Vesta gating walking around all that junkin and I put up my camp at least my hammock and all that as always almost always at night we're going to do it different today well so did the ashes we're just almost covering all the rocks here so I'm going to get metadata spring cleaning here get all this dugout and toss it back in here and the some of the brush and I've already been throwing stuff in some of the pines around here this ash is actually fertilizer I'm just kind of scattering it round about pretty good not piling it all in one single place but we'll get this pit dug out here I'm going to redo the stones around there make it all nice and neat you know that's a part of my giving back to the the privilege of being out here a little bit of cleanup so now you kind of moved some of this out and dug some of this dirt out a little baby down in there so I already looking a lot better than it was I'll be pretty happy about it once I get this thing set up here I'll really enjoy we're to enjoy my campfire here tonight we'll cut everybody that camps out here is really on their own to kind of police out to themselves and kind of keep everything nice and I've been gathering up aluminum cans and stuff like that it's been laying around stomping those down flat getting those at a pile know how those back home all right well I'm feeling pretty good about things here that's a nice little fire pit I cleaned it out down to the dirt and rearranged the rocks at it some more kind even it up a little bit you know a little a little beauty of the outdoors so i'm anticipating it could get a little on the cool side tonight I mean not bad but a fire is going to feel awfully nice in here well we have fire we have liftoff we had fire I'm gonna love it I think I'll go right now and then I grab me a little bit a little bit more some firewood so I'm kind of ready for the night well I got my fire going so I looking nice lovely feeling good sun's gone down over the horizon there I set up my cooking sticks a little bit i got some in this 16 centimetres ebro pot I got some rice in there some rice cooking in the bottom and I got some chicken cooking up in the top then the pot on the little pot on the other side that's a pot for my eyes in junior high school thing is older than the hills and I'm not kidding I got some water cooking in there for some of my Mormon mocha I got to have that pretty quick here so i'm i'm loving at mantus this is going to be just dead quiet up here cuz there's really nobody else up here I mean I didn't even I didn't even see only a couple people in the area that was quite a bit further down the mountain so I believe I believe we're alone here tonight and it's perfectly fine with me they got me good little blaze tell you what a face if I step back from this fire at all I mean the fire is literally the only noise out here well it's breakfast time here so let me get the show on the road I use my camp stool for everything it's like my little it's like my little table what I'm going to make is some grits that were sent to me by one of our customers over in Georgia and these are some very nice grits but I have to get some more here shortly but Logan Turnpike mill and gain or blairsville Georgia I really love these grits they're really nice and so what I need is about a quarter of a cup of grits now this cup right here don't make fun of it back in late 60s when I started by in my own when I started buying my own gear for backpacking stuff like that i bought a cook said was made in japan back in the days when Japan was the China of the world and I've got most of the cook set still and i still use it so anyway i'm going to dump the grits in there and pour a little bit of water and kind of swish that around a little bit and you pour off the very top and reason for that is the little brand holes and stuff like that on the crack corn though they float to the top and pour off so now I'm good to go so now I'll add my cup of water to this I'll put it on the fire here get going I got my little cast-iron skillet here a little lodge 6 inch cast iron skillet it's hot ready to roll and I got a couple of these are put fillets that are wrapped in bacon they look there don't they that's in that bacon right there tied off with that plane the thought over there is a lid let it let that thing cook for this a little bit it's going to be good i'm telling you what i'm ashamed to show you my grits because I let them cook you don't feel I may even boiled over a little bit better oh they are in there I got plenty of dress right there nice thing about grits is all i gotta do is keep them warm i added just a Titch more moisture to it I just keeping them warm it's not going to hurt a thing for me to wait a little while on the grits all right I believe our meat is done here is that sizzling going on oh yeah look at that

Brown but it still got a little they've got a little tenderness to the touch they're so nice I told me to remove this from the heat and I set it back over here right now is that cast-iron pan will keep it plenty warm but what I wanted to do absolutely and if they can pour off the drippings here you know there's not a lot of them but hey every little bit counts and I'll be making my gravy in this stand here so i'll have that little bit of drippings in there to add a little bit of some flavor to it why not alright so looking good on the gravy seen this gravy is awesome I wound up getting another couple tablespoons of drippings off of that pork and that gravy just tastes stunning we'll scoop some grits on out of here now we can go ahead and grab us a these piece the pork here and then save that other and for shawna just take my pot lifter here and my pot lifter here take this gravy and dumped on the grits up a little bit on meat that gravy is awesome it really is my pork fillet my bacon and my grits and my gravy all together here hmm how excellent excellent excellent may way show your time out have a little fun little venture try some new things or whatever

I don't need to eat for a while time I get done with this right here anyway Barry peacock Willis innovation have a great day

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