So I decided at the last minute to make our first pseudo-camping trip of the season. Brieana as usual had plans with a friend so, again, as usual it’s me and Jake with a free Saturday night. We decided to hit Lost Lake and do a quick overnighter to dust of the gear, break out the tent, and make sure all of the broken and missing camping items are discovered when we are 15 minutes from home as opposed to 3 hours away.
Plus is gave us the opportunity to try out our best offseason purchase. The REI Hoodoo 3 tent. As many of you know I don’t tend to pay full price for many things. I don’t consider myself to be cheap but it kills me to pay full price for something that I know good and well will be half off the week after I buy it. So I have been checking REI for months trying to catch this tent on clearance and finally did. Regularly $249 on clearance for $149. SOLD!! Best tent I have ever owned by far.
So after setting up the tent I figured we had about an hour of daylight left so I put a rod in the water to see we I couldn’t coax a trout into biting. First cast…….pay dirt. It was a planter trout so it wasn’t huge, but it fit nicely in the frying pan which is what really counts.
Since one trout wasn’t enough for dinner we had Frito boats. I can’t recall the last time I actually ate a Frito boat but I was trying to find something filling that wouldn’t require me to break out the camp stove. Something I could cook in the Jetboil which is quite possibly the best camping accessory ever invented. (I should be getting endorsement money…) Boils water in two minutes, cooked the can of chili in probably a minute and a half. Jake’s quote, “That is the coolest thing ever!!!” And I agree.
We caught two more fish the next morning which looked just like the first one so I had a nice fresh fish lunch on Monday morning. Think we’re ready for camping season!!!
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