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\nWe pay a cook on these float-fishing expeditions a stipend and cover most expenses. After years of guiding on the Deschutes where every measure is taken to maximize a client\u2019s time on the water, it seemed foolish to do otherwise when on our own. In these high desert rivers the fish will rise to a fly when slung across the surface more often in the early morning and evening. If you\u2019re tied up scrambling eggs or flipping burgers, you certainly won\u2019t be catching fish. We\u2019ve had half a dozen different cooks over the years, but more often than not, Dawn Rachel, our Dutch Oven Diva, grabs the job as soon as it comes up.<\/p>\nD, as I call her, is a spark plug. She turned 50 recently and retains a fiery, animated beauty. Short and buxom with a fashion sense somewhere between Carhartt and Xtratuf, she sings lead vocals in a popular island band; she landscapes and paints houses to make ends meet. I remember her on the Deschutes when all the guys were doing their best mahout impressions atop the big 14-foot rafts, and Dawn dominated\u00a0our little Riot and tore up the river. D just gets after it, doesn\u2019t sit back; fiery is definitely the word.<\/p>\n
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I watched her fussing with her Dutch oven. We\u2019d finished supper an hour ago, a savory meal of roast partridge, wild rice and veggies\u2014this must be dessert. She took off the lid, shone her headlamp inside, turned to us and cracked a smile.<\/p>\n
Damn. How much better could it get? I drained my beer and switched on my headlamp, found my plate and got in line. I shone my lamp in the pot, smiled and shook my head. Huckleberry Dump Cake. \u201cSay that three times fast,\u201d she said and laughed.<\/p>\n
She laughs a lot, this woman, great booming laughs with sparkling eyes and rosy cheeks. Hot, delicious dessert eaten in such conditions is a thing of near embarrassing pleasure. We all tuck into our bowls and say no more than mumbling accolades in Dawn\u2019s direction. I\u2019ve known Dawn for 20 years and she\u2019s been on more than a few fishing trips with me. She\u2019s a damn good cook and likes to fish. What more could you ask for?<\/p>\n
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Plates were soon scraped clean, crumbs gathered from coats and laps and placed reverentially in mouths. Sated, I lit my pipe and sat back feeling as content as a bear in a blueberry patch. A couple of the guys were playing their mbiras, the melodic rhythms of the metallic thumb pianos blending with the river\u2019s murmur, the snap of the fire and the whistle of the first winter wind in the boughs overhead. Steelhead were discussed and plans laid for early morning strikes to favorite runs. Dawn and her helper for the day had already cleaned up and closed down the kitchen.<\/p>\n
I noticed she was still up, sitting alone just beyond the canopy and I walked over. The rain had stopped, the clouds had disappeared and the stars were starting to shine. The wind had died down, making it an almost pleasant night, given it was below freezing.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels so good to be out here again,\u201d she said. \u201c It\u2019s weird. I got back from Alaska nearly a month ago and I\u2019ve been jonesin\u2019 to get back on the river. I\u2019ve loaded up my rig and driven over to the river every day for the last couple of weeks to fish, but I don\u2019t.”<\/p>\n
\u201cI stand and look. I see all the anglers with their dogs and coolers. The water is deep and fast and dark. I’m scared of slipping and disappearing. No one knows where I am and there\u2019s no one around to report me missing. Maybe I\u2019m just the friendly type, but fishing seems a lot more fun when you can share it with someone. If I were a dude I would just go hang out alone and fish. I wouldn\u2019t feel weird out there alone. I guess what I love most about all these trips we\u2019ve taken is the feeling of solitude and independence\u2014love running my own boat\u2014yet plenty of buds to hook up with when I get to camp. That sound crazy?\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cNot at all, best of both worlds. I wouldn\u2019t think of coming out here alone,\u201dI replied. \u201cCanyons are better with friends. Frankly, these river trips always remind me of what I would imagine a gazelle or zebra hunting party must feel like on the African plain. When we come up empty-handed we can commiserate with one another, and when we succeed there is no finer celebration than around a fire out here with your buds.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRight on,\u201d she says with a big grin, and reaches out to bump my fist. \u201cBe cool to roast some gazelle in the Dutchie.\u201d<\/p>\n
We laugh. We\u2019ve had these conversations a lot, Dawn and me. Just the two of us, after the rest of the party has tucked away in sleeping bags. She\u2019s easy to chat with and, through the years, we\u2019ve really gotten to know one another.<\/p>\n
Dawn grew up loving to cook, and she especially enjoyed baking. The Williams and Sonoma catalog was her Bible. For the past few years she\u2019s been cooking on fishing boats in Southeast Alaska. Now she aspires to be in a charge of a kitchen in the canyon.<\/p>\n
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Dawn has been a master of the Dutchie for a quite a few years. It all began with an impromptu pit stop off of Highway 2, on the way home from her \u201cMany Rivers to Cross\u201d tour of Montana. A \u201cSportman\u2019s Show\u201d sign in a rural town led her to the cook tent of C.W. \u201cButch\u201d Welch, aka CeeDub, renowned Dutch oven cook and storyteller. She credits CeeDub with her first inspiration. After meeting him she bought and borrowed her way through every Dutch oven cookbook, asking former river guides and friends for tips. She learned the best method to pack a cooler, and which kind of ingredients fare best in standard recipes. Her first Dutch kitchen was her front yard, where she spent hours practicing and perfecting the Dutchie.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to brag,\u201d she told me one night while the embers died down in the post-dinner fire, \u201cbut a good intelligent cook, is like a good expedition leader\u2014it\u2019s precious.\u201d Dawn likes the responsibility of keeping the group\u2019s energy on an even keel. She pays keen attention to our hydration, blood sugar and, well, pleasure. \u201cSometimes a hot, beautiful meal is all you have to look forward to. To simply eat can change everything,\u201d she said, and busted out a hearty laugh.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe\u2019re lucky on most of these trips, big rafts and all,\u201d I said. \u201cWe don\u2019t go without much, but that won\u2019t be the case on the Owyhee.\u201d<\/p>\n
The guys and I were planning a self-support trip for the next fall on the Owyhee running at 150 cfs. We\u2019d be paddling IKs, so food and the kitchen would be a major reduction. I asked if she\u2019d come cook what we could manage to catch or shoot.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeriously? We can\u2019t bring rice and veggies, coffee and beer and…\u201d
\n\u201cStaples, yeah, but for protein, we eat what we drag into camp.\u201d
\n\u201cSounds like a challenge. Lots of smallies though, right?\u201d
\n\u201cYeah, but they put the small in smally; rarely do you hook a big one. We eat mostly from upland: quail, chukar. We had jackrabbit last time,\u201d I said. \u201cFour hours in the Dutchie and it tastes like chicken.\u201d
\n\u201dEverything tastes like chicken. Bet I can make it taste like Jack!\u201d<\/p>\n
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Through years of these post-dinner-scotch-by-the-embers discussions, I\u2019ve learned a lot from D. Here\u2019s the basic dirt from the Diva herself on getting started, planning meals, and digging deep for deliciousness:<\/p>\n
Buy Some Quality Ovens: <\/strong>Critical to easy food prep on the river is a good set of anodized aluminum ovens. GSI makes some great ones. When she says set, she\u2019s talking two nesting units that stack and pack nicely together. The 10\u201d fits inside the 12\u201d with its lid upside down, then they both pack into the 12\u201d case.\u00a0They make great dish pans and the anodized aluminum cleans up really easily\u2014you\u2019ll appreciate that. You never have to season anodized aluminum as opposed to cast iron. They dissipate the heat so well, they make a great trivet for setting other hot things upon. Basically, you can do all frying, boiling, saut\u00e9ing, roasting and baking with Dutchies and never need to carry another pan. (Although a griddle is a good thing to have for pancakes and steaks.) Dawn takes a 14\u201d along with the other two for big trips. With the handy carry case, that GSI makes, you can pack various needed utensils like a lighter stick and welding gloves right in the ovens so \u201cthe kit\u2019\u2019 is all together and ready to go when you land.<\/p>\nSuccess is in the Reps<\/strong>: Find your Guinea pig and get cookin\u2019. You can cook on the range if you have to, but try and use briquettes so you can learn to regulate your heat and cooking time with them. Pretty soon you\u2019ll be thinking of that roast chicken in terms of a 10 briquette\/twice meal. When you\u2019re cooking with a Dutch oven you can tease the heat by adding or subtracting coals as you go. This is nice, especially when cooking something as delicate as game birds, a Dutch can ensure the meat won\u2019t overcook. With practice comes knowing how long dishes take to cook and learning how many briquettes to use.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/d2kl15j267vxtq.cloudfront.net\/duct-tape\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/31184140\/Thomsen-JD-River-08-118_web.jpg\")
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Smart Planning: <\/strong>A notebook is a must for preplanning, refining the menu and grocery shopping. It helps to start with a smaller, pack sized notebook so you don\u2019t have to transcribe your notes at the put-in. You can keep notes of what you were going to cook, what you actually cooked, what worked or didn\u2019t, and quantities you may have misjudged. It\u2019s good to plan ahead for whatever spontaneous menu items may arise, like a birthday cake. It\u2019s hard to rob from the precisely measured amounts of other meals. And you\u2019re sure to leave something out.<\/p>\nGo Deep with Your Menu<\/strong>: <\/strong>Dawn has cooked pork roast with potatoes in a special onion-cherry-chutney sauce that could challenge your grandmother\u2019s family recipe. She\u2019s baked mango-upside down cake, warm pasta salad, Spanish rice and beans with marinated chicken. You name it, she can make it. She can make a standard campfire Ribeye taste gourmet with brown beer bread to sop up the juices. The point is, all those fancy recipes you dust off to impress the new neighbors or your picky in-laws during the holidays can be rendered to work in the Dutch. Gone are the days of canned chili and PB&Js at camp. Dawn the days with wild salmon and game birds, sweet potatoes and wild rice.<\/p>\nLet everyone make their own Gorp:<\/strong> Dawn has one dry bag dedicated to Self Actualization Gorp: large bags of almonds, walnuts, pecans, dried bananas, cranberries, raisins, coconut, chocolate, sunflower seeds and a box of zip-locks. Every morning Dawn rises early, gets the coffee brewing, spreads all the Gorp ingredients out and goes fishin\u2019. Even if you aren\u2019t a fisherman, keeping a couple meals simple, leaves room for complexity where it matters.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/d2kl15j267vxtq.cloudfront.net\/duct-tape\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/31184140\/Thomsen-JD-River-08-112_web.jpg\")
\n\u201cI\u2019d like to refine my technique for cooking game birds in the Dutchie,\u201d Dawn said. \u201cI\u2019m thinking more fat, bacon wrapped, using fewer coals. I guess I can get my practice in on the Owyhee.\u201d Dawn chuckled, a hearty chuckle.<\/p>\n
She sat back, took a swig of her beer. \u201cIf one dish could embody mastery,\u201d she said, \u201cit would be the pizza I made that day after we froze our asses off fighting 15 miles of headwind. You remember that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy God, yes woman,\u201d I said and drew on my pipe. \u201cThat was manna from heaven!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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