Going into the Q where there's no fire grate, do you pack in a small grill for the fire pit?  We've done the balancing on rocks bit and used a handled grill for fish.  I was thinking about taking our small grill that fits in our charcoal Weber that we use at home.  What say ye - grill or no grill?

If you forget to bring a firegrate to the Q, just stop at every open campsite you can find.  I guarantee you'll make no more than 5 stops before you find yourself a firegrate.

Better yet, cook on a stove and you'll save a lot of time each meal.

Yea, take a grill.  You can take the weber one if you want.  I have two campfire grates.  One is small (6.5" x 12.5") that I use for solos or two people and a larger one for groups (12" x 24").  I got both, I think, from Campmor.

The other thing I have used are fire irons.  These are simply two angle irons about 18" long.  You just set them on rocks or logs so that they go over the fire, and space them apart so that your pot or pan can sit on it.

BTW -- I had my wife sew storage bags for these.  They are blaze orange.  Sometimes I think people just forget their grates accidently.  An empty orange bag is a red flag that I'm missing something.  Also, once in the bag, it is easily seen so I won't forget it/overlook it.  I also have blaze orange bags for my reflector oven and my saw.

We do use stoves for the majority of our cooking.  The fire is a bonus.  It's used primarily to warm water for hot chocolate or to grill fish.  I'm hoping for my first laker in Sept. and want to be prepared to grill it using the recipes gleaned from this forum.   

We did it because we were young and dumb.

....OK, maybe we were just dumb.

Q of the day-- How many grates will be found on Stumpy's Pond? ??? 8)

Stumpy,

Do you have a decent recipe for Chub?

Jimbo   8)

Stumpy might have picked em all up in preparation for his epic adventure!! Probably figured they'd be useful for swatting skeeters, flys, and assorted other vermin. Or he may strap them to his boots to use in transporting the swamps, not unlike snowshoes. But he could've missed a couple or three. Did you check in the weeds?? Some veteran slobs are getting more careful about where they hide them, so they will be there next year. After all, one would hate to suffer the total indignity of having ones firegrate turn up MIA, especially when they are so versatile!! ???

So Jimbo, did you upgrade ???

But it could be "ungrate."

So gratified & grateful, was I, to the ingratiating ingrate who left the great upgraded grate, gratis, that baked my un-grated great trout au gratin for my good gray plate that I left a gratuity in lieu of my ungratified congratulations.

Gravely grasping for gray matter,

Jimbo    8)

Something of a "G  Wiz", eh, Old_Salt?

Jimbo   8)

In a great grave under gravelly ground where the gray grouse groan.

Jimbo   8)


PS.  Sounds like the Badwater Lake area to me....

YB -

Goodness, GRacious, aren't you the one whose identity caption (bottom of your posts) starts with:

"Let your speech always be with gr...."          ???


Jimbo   8)

Jib-Jabbing & Jabberwocky
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'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

  He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought-
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jaberwock?
Come to my arms, by beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did grye and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.



Graciously Granted by Lewis Carroll after his visit to an Ojibwe Indian village near Badwater Lake.


Jimbo   8)

Old_Salt,

Your wish (something in English... albeit "Olde English") is my command (complete with translation):
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                                Beowulf


             1Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum,
          LO, praise of the prowess of people-kings
             2þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,
          of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped,
             3hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
          we have heard, and what honor the athelings won!
             4Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena/ þreatum,
          Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes,
             5monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,
          from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore,
             6egsode eorlas. Syððan ærest wearð/
          awing the earls. Since erst he lay
             7feasceaft funden, he þæs frofre gebad,
          friendless, a foundling, fate repaid him:
             8weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,
          for he waxed under welkin, in wealth he throve,
             9oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra
          till before him the folk, both far and near,
           10ofer hronrade hyran scolde,
           who house by the whale-path, heard his mandate

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I don't think this dude, Beowolf, ever did any grilling near Badwater Lake.  He'd fit in well enough, however.  Perhaps I'll invite him on my next trip and we can wax a few welkins together.....

Jimbo   8)