From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
Subject: Re: Floating through a forest fire
Date: 11 Sep 92 21:04:41 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Sep11.170452.9976@nas.nasa.gov> eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
|In article <1992Sep11.154601.21455@ncar.ucar.edu>
|ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana Stern) writes:
|>] >felt that we were privileged to have seen the fires, and lucky to have been
|>] >untouched by them.
|>] 
|>] Interesting story, Ilana.  However, the question remains, did you see
|>] any burned cows?
|>
|>We were sure hoping to!  I like my steaks kinda rare, but char-broiled
|>is ok by me!  
|>
|>(No cows along the Salmon, at least none that we saw.  Not counting
|>cow elk, of course.) 
|
|Cows?  Hell (s Canyon) terrestial animal flesh?
|Well, what about a nice, fresh, finely poached salmon?

Poaching salmon is illegal.  You should get a license if you want
to catch salmon. :-)

|Thin fillets, flakey, orange meat which melts in your mouth...
|Baked potato from the ground....
 
You're starting to make me hungry. I wonder if I could cook my "fresh
steelhead and veggies in parchment paper" in one of those reflection 
ovens that are being discussed.  I never thought of it before but imagine,
take a 2-4# steelhead, large trout, or salmon and clean it, leaving the
head and tail intact.  Slice up some zuchinni, onions, carrots, and other
crisp veggies of choice and fill the cavity of the fish.  Rub the skin
of the fish with bacon and/or soy sauce.  Put to bacon on top of the skin
if you wish.  Wrap the whole thing up in baking parchment paper and toss
it in the oven.  Remove it after 10 minutes or so and check if it's done.
Don't overcook it!  When it's done open the parchment paper and scoop
out the veggies that have been steamed in the cavity of the fish.  Watch
how the meat just flakes off the bones.

Anyone drooling yet?

|Several years ago driving home from the Meadows, there was a fire
|on the road descending to Yosemite Creek.  It was one of those fires
|they were watching, but not putting out

I backpacked into an area in the south part of Sequioa where they were having
a controlled burn a couple of years ago. The fire was probably a 1/4 mile
away but the smoke coming through the heavily forested canyon gave an eerie
feeling all weekend. I'm suprised that Ilana was allowed to float the river
during that fire.  I was once coming back from the east side of Yosemite
and we were looking for a place to camp so we could do some fishing in the
foothill rivers in the morning.  All the camps in Yosemite were full, and
due to the large fire (the Cherry Lake fire of a couple of years ago) we
ended up having to drive all the way down to Lake Don Pedro before we could
find a piece of dirt that we had to pay $9 to sleep on.  Ironically this
is the same campground where the fire near Groveland was started a few weeks
ago.


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