Prineville Reservoir
	Cookout and Fishing Day

Prineville Reservoir is located about 45 miles east of Bend in the canyonland country. The boys chose to spend a day out honing their fishing and cooking skills. Requirements for the cooking merit badge, as well as the food handling, fire safety, and cooking requirements for Second Class were addressed. The day was focused on teaching different methods of camp cooking - such as dutch oven cooking, cooking meals on a stick, eggs or muffins cooked over coals in a hollow orange, bacon and eggs in a brown bag, foil meals, the use of reflector ovens - you get the idea. Between meals, the boys had fun along the lake shore and practiced their fishing skills.

Preparing the ingredients for the dutch oven meals. Bacon wrapped filets, garlic potatoes, and cobblers were all part of the fare.
	Bill goes for the Guiness World Book of Records with a five stack dutch oven tower. Dutch oven cooking is done by placing hot coals under the oven as well as on top of the rimmed lid. By stacking the ovens, you can get double duty out of the coals on the lid.
Ryan Anderson decides that this is a perfect venue for his Board of Review for First Class.

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