 Take a bow. Good job. That was a good recap of the morning. Yes it is. Very frosty this morning. Good morning everybody and welcome back to the mountains of Colorado. Today is gonna be one of our last days up here and we are we're celebrating because today it's an open sky. It was frosty, it was cold last night, it was freezing, but the clouds have moved out and we are not getting rained on this morning and we've been waiting to do OSG special cinnamon rolls. And today is the day that only happens two times a year. It's usually on a camping trip of some sort and round to holidays, Christmas, Thanksgiving, something like that. So very special. So you guys are getting to witness the makings of the cinnamon rolls and then I think after that I mean we're going for a hike and I am taking my breakdown fly rod and we're gonna be doing some some mountain stream fly fishing. Alright guys first step we are going to get some actual charcoal briquettes going. And we have those in our little Weber Medoodle right here. Those are on fire so I'll just set those to the side and we're gonna use those to cook with. We've got some natural coals that we can brush over if we want to as well, but having those on top is key. It's key because we're using a Dutch oven. If you've never seen a Dutch oven before it is basically a big cast iron pot, but it has the ability to put coals from the fire on top. And that lip will hold those coals in there. It also has some little legs so you can put it just right over the coals and then put heat on top as well. I want to try something this year that we haven't tried before. What's that? I rewatched our video from I think it was last year and somebody very smartly didn't think about this said to go ahead and preheat your oven, your cast iron, your Dutch oven. Preheat your oven? Yeah. Just like you would at home. We've never done that. We just like stick it in the oven. So preheat it by just kind of sticking it in there a little bit. Thank you fans of the channel. The key is to get even distribution. With a natural fire it's pretty hard to get even distribution, but with the with the briquettes we can cheat a little bit. Okay OSG has pre-made, they aren't cooked. Pre-made cinnamon rolls. We've got butter and we've got liners for the old lodge here which is now preheated. Preheated ready to deploy paper. All right. If you haven't done this before one of the tricks is to not hit your liner outside of the pan otherwise you'll get ash when you go to open it up. Nicely preheated. It's browning perfectly. Yeah, it's great. I'm glad we did that. The liner in there. Look at that. I'm using the butter as a tool. The liner in. Get that in there so it doesn't stick. I like it. I like it too. I guess that'll rain. So I'm gonna go ahead and suggest don't put as many on the bottom because the bottom is already pretty hot. Deploying cinnamon rolls. Now you could use Pillsbury and I honestly I was about to cheat this trip and do that because I had prepped so much other food for this trip but you just wouldn't let me do it would you? I wouldn't let you do that. I think I don't think you'd be happy with yourself. I wouldn't. I'd feel like a cheater. I feel like a liar. So yes these are homemade. Oh they're already starting to cook. Oh yeah. Okay. There we go. Now at home I do 350 for 25 20 minutes. Out here it's we don't know. We don't know. We're just gonna go with it. Alright. I'm gonna pour some coals out. A little flat spot right here. I'm not gonna do as many on the bottom. Yeah I'd rather cook from the top. Just kind of get those in a little circle. Put that on top. Okay. We will sprinkle it with the briquettes. It's probably good. Oh yeah. And this is literally the stick we used last year. My pot hanger that I made. On your tripod. Yeah it has stayed in my truck. Waiting for this moment. Waiting for this moment. Alright let's set a timer. I would say start at 15 and then check from there. Okay. 15 minutes is up. Let's see what we got. Rolling around in here. Hopefully a good cinnamon. I feel like I can smell them but I think that's me. I think they're done. I think the top needs a little more. Hold on. Hold on. I think they're done. Okay. They're done. Nobody step on these. It's very hot. Okay we're gonna try something different this year. I think the last two years we did, I did a mason jar of icing and then I did another glass jar of icing last year and it just, it worked but then you can't get all of it out. So this time I just did it in a bag. I'm gonna snip the bottom of it and kind of squeeze it just like a typical icing tube and then after you're done you just throw it away. A lot less mess. Show me the nipple. Just dab them up. Look at that. Alright. Perfect. And I went ahead and warmed it up in our camper so it'd be nice. Alright we're taking these out right now. The last year we had a little sticking on the bottom. This year absolutely perfect bottoms. Oh my goodness. Perfect bottoms. Dip that, re-dip that in some icing right there. A little bit of maple bacon. What do you think about that? I think it's perfect. Those are perfect. So 15 minutes. More coals on the top than the bottom. Pre-heating. Yes pre-heating I think was key. Thank you to one of our fans for suggesting that. This is the best ever. The best performance. So good. On the cooking ever. I think we finally figured it out. That 15 minute mark. I'm glad we did 15 otherwise they would have been way overcooked with the 20. Surprisingly they cooked faster up here. Never got on the bottoms that good. Well we did less. Yeah we did less on the bottom. Less coals on the bottom than on the top. So they cook more from the top. Which is like a game-changer. So good. Incredible. The icing trick too. That was perfect. Now we got this calorie intake. It's time to do a little hiking. A little fishing. Perfect start to our last day. Alright we are working off the cinnamon rolls now with a beautiful view. I just heard a bald eagle. What do you think about this view? It's a pretty good view, huh? Yeah. I think mom's gonna be stopping for photos. We're stopping for photos, aren't we? Here we are. Selfies. Now we're gonna hike a few miles. We ran into a smell cunters way in here. So then spotted in the hut. It's been so muddy. Nasty. Oh my gosh what a view. What a view guys. Wow these shoots right here. No fatwood. Alright we got our morning hike in and we still got a couple hours I think until the rain really starts coming in. So dad's got his flat rod. A fly vest. I'm walking down here to a spot I've never fished but I've always wanted to. The water's actually a lot higher this year and the tail waters, these waters that are heading in into the lake and out of the lake are just battered looking. So there's a couple little pools here I want to hit leading into this lake and then right down into the lake I've been seeing trout surfacing over there just kind of scouting from above. So I'm gonna start at this first little pool that I see down here and I'm going floating, floating mode. I'm not even bringing my nymphing pole so we're gonna try some dry fly and just some slow sinking nymphs. See if we can get any trout. There's some big brown trout that actually start moving up the rivers to spawn. We're a little early for it but there might be some staging at the lower end of the lake so let's go see if we can get a good trout on the line. Hopefully big brown. Okay I don't see anything right now in this pool but a lot of these cutthroats are tiny. They blend in really well so we might be able to get a cutthroat. Picture ask but I don't see any. Alright guys I'm just walking down here until I see some surfacing activity like I've seen up. Oh there's one right there. I think this is kind of a dry fly deal. Just put on a little dry fly and I'm still seeing them. See some little ones right here. Gosh there's a school of them. Oh my gosh. Guys we are like oh my gosh he ate it right away. That's a good brown. That's a good brown. Oh my gosh it's a good brown. Holy shnoggins. Oh my gosh he ate it on top guys. Oh he's running. This is a good brown. Just got to net him. Yeah absolutely hosed it. Oh there's big ones. There's big ones in here. I'm trying to stay low because there's more. Trying to site fish these guys. I bet you got these guys are staging for the spawn. These things just fight. They fight like the dickens. Yeah absolutely hosed that dry fly. Oh my gosh what a beautiful trout. Oh my gosh that's my biggest brown ever guys. That is my biggest brown ever. Holy cow. I know they get a lot bigger than this but for me this is incredible. I'm shaking. Got him right there in the corner of the mouth. Oh man all the hair just came off that fly. Sucks. They have some teeth. I didn't even realize they had they had teeth like that. All right buddy here all wrapped up. Trying to get you out. Oh my gosh they have teeth. I didn't realize. They have teeth like I did not realize guys. Oh look at this brown. Biggest brown trout of my life right there. All right I'm gonna measure him from my net. He's as wide as my net. I'm gonna let him go here in the rain. Oh my gosh I was so hoping that these would be browns up in here. I think they're staging. This is incredible. All right I got like half a fly on here. Just gonna fling it out there. It seems like they were they were about to fight over that anyways. I just want it kind of on top. Now that's raining I can't see him. There's one right there. One just emerged. Oh he wants it to just turn. It's like it's got to be it's got to be floating on top. Oh god he got it. Got him. Another brown dandy. Quite as big as the last one but another pretty one. Come here buddy. Get you in the net. Oh my gosh they're beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous guys. This is this is insane. I was not expecting this when I woke up this morning but wow. I am a lucky dude. There goes the fly what's left of it. Oh my gosh these are these are great browns. Great size for me. Now they get like 40 inches long but this is insane. This is insane for a little old me but I just know they spawn around October and I'm just using kind of my my bass since like this is where I would stage if I was spawning upriver. Oh please hold off rain please hold off. This is gonna be the best day of brown trout fishing my life if I can get just a couple hours. Oh my god giant. Oh my god it was about to eat it too. This is a giant. This is a giant. It's a giant. It's a giant. Oh my god it wants it. It wants it. Oh my god did he eat it? Oh my god this is a giant. This is like a 24 inch. Holy this is a big one. Biggest brown in my life. Might have spooked him. Oh my god these are huge. There's like five or six of them. There are giants guys. Giants. I need to change my fly. They were a little spooked by it. Oh god don't blow wind. Don't blow. These are these are twice the size of the ones I was catching. Megalodons. Alright one more blind cast and then I'm gonna switch to a fly that I can keep dry. I think that's gonna be key. Those were huge. Holy moly. Shaking right now. Just put on a fresh dry fly. Put some stuff on it to help it float and all we need is just we need 30 minutes of not what it's doing right now. This rain. These are huge browns that are coming in like big females. I almost had them. They were charging my fly. Insane. I just I can't see them right now. It's too dark. I'm gonna pause the camera. I have a feeling it's gonna stop. I can feel a little sunshine. Then they get this nice slick water they'll be able to see my bug. So I'm gonna pause. Oh my god giant. Giant on it. Holy smokes. I just saw the wake. It's right on it. He's right on it. He's right on it. Obviously something they just don't like. They're coming up to it. They're just not eating it. Oh my god giant. Didn't eat it though. I don't know how I missed it. That was like a topwater popper bite. Well I don't think the weather's gonna get any better where I can see these browns. It's really stinks because I saw the biggest brown trout of my life. I saw two or three of them. Similar size. Seems like the only way I can get them to bite is to kind of head them off. See where they're going. Sight cast them. Alright that's gonna do it for me. It's getting wet and cold. I've got to get firewood. Wish I could stay here all day and I would if it was me by myself but we got to take care of the fam. Well the storm got the best of me. I was not able to see those brown trout anymore which was a bummer because I really think that that was a good opportunity for me to catch a giant. I could see those those big fish. I was just sight fishing for them. Just kind of walking down the bay. Had to get off the mountain. Had to pack everything up. Storms got really bad and luckily we just made it back down off the mountain where things are a little safer. Still windy but there's a lot of thunderstorms clapping in there so we are going to actually head back to Texas now. Sadly I didn't want to end on a rain out but mountains have just given us so many awesome views and awesome opportunities in the outdoors that you know it's bound to happen every once in a while. So thank you guys for tuning in to all the episodes up here in the mountains and I just can't wait to get back. Start dumping footage and bringing all these videos that you guys are watching right now to the screen. Make sure to smash that like button for all the great views and just I had an awesome time up here guys and I hope you guys enjoyed watching it and I'll see you on another outdoor adventure back in Texas.