I cooked a HUGE breakfast in my 4Runner

that I'm going to place this morning's plans on wind hold for the next hour. It's 5 19 right now so I guess I'll take a little snooze in the car for a few minutes and check the situation in about an hour. Let me try and get a picture. I mean kind of cool. The wind was not dying down. It's still really really windy and my pans are really light and to be completely honest I wasn't 100% that I wasn't gonna have like food flying everywhere because of this wind. So we're going to come up with a new plan in the options. Number one is to make breakfast somewhere else like in the car and still go on the hike. Number two is to find a different lake that's not as windy maybe protected by some more trees and make some food there. The only issue with that is that there's going to be more people. And the third option is to abandon all plans and find something completely new. In 150 feet take a right on Bear Lake Loop Trail. Not giving up on this. I want to do my breakfast hike lake excursion so I picked another new lake. One that I have been to before that is not going to be as crowded as Sprague Lake hopefully put on my microspikes. This is horribly inefficient. I put them on backwards. I know what I'm doing. Trust me guys. These fit like a glove. On the move. All of these signs are almost buried. There's so much snow. But we get to cut across since everything is frozen right now. Not so steep section. Steep section. We're sending it. We got microspikes. Oh it's not bad. What I found. It's stuck to the snow. I can't get it. It's so stuck. Got it. I'm rich. Such a beautiful day in the mountains. Dude some skier just came this way. I have no idea how he made it around. Nice here. I am a wee bit chilly after stopping to take some pictures. So it was time to keep moving. The real question is am I stopping for the views or to catch my breath? Or a little bit of both. I think I'm almost there. I've never been humbled by a single mile so much in my life. It's just too windy up here to use my stove. Why walk when you can glissade? Go. I don't have enough steepness. I have to like walk myself down. Oh no I'm going the wrong way. Okay. It was an attempt. Mighty fine views if I do say so myself. I don't know why but this stump makes me think of a frog. For me to glissade but I feel like I should try it. All right here we go kiddos. This is amazing. It's so good. Keep going. Go go go go go go. But why is it working so well? It was working well. Keep going. I feel like such a kid. That was the most sweat I've had all day. It's like I gained a lot of fitness in just the past 30 minutes. I think the hike up really improved my fitness level and on the way down I'm really able to utilize those benefits. I knew that the hard work would pay off. The benches are not really benches right now but I can use this. Just because the alpine lake feast didn't happen doesn't mean a car feast can't happen. Although I didn't have much luck with the lake I am still curious if I managed to pack everything that I needed to make an awesome meal. So I'm going to use just what I put in my pack to make breakfast in my car instead. I'm really curious what the people who saw me on the trail were thinking when I went past them with eggs which are still intact, a spatula, and maple syrup. That's all they could see. Probably thinking the same thing that people think whenever I cook in parking lots which is this girl's crazy. In the bag of goodies we have the food spork, backpacking stove, pancakes mix in its lenti jar, the brand new mess kit, and a sleeping pad but I'm leaving that in there for now. It genuinely looks like a tornado went through my car right now. So let's get started. Bag of food. Potatoes on the menu for today. Breakfast potatoes and sausage, scrambled eggs, and pancakes. I think that's everything. While that is cooking... Oh it worked. Okay sweet. This is scary. I need to learn how to crack an egg open with one hand. Because this is not working. How do people do that? Struggle? Well that's how they do it. They like... that's not how they do that. I was prepared. Whenever I packed my my go kit of food, I put some wipes in there too. I just realized something that I forgot and that is a spatula. But I'm not going to use one because I said I wouldn't use any of the stuff that's in my car that if I didn't already have it with me in my backpack. I need a solid surface. It worked. It's only stupid if it doesn't work. I'm just gonna use the egg whites for the pancakes. These pancakes are not the right consistency. I'm just gonna have one more egg white. That is new. Those are done. Also in the bag of goodies, I pre-made some spices. The only thing I didn't grab is olive oil and that was an oversight. But I'm going to try and make do. I'm trying to make these crispy on the outside now that they're soft on the inside. They taste good. Why are these not turning crispy? What am I doing wrong other than not adding olive oil? This doesn't make any sense. Oh they're turning crispy. Yes! I'm going to cook the meat. I have, this is my baggie for trash. I have this thing of sausage that I put some brown sugar into and salt and pepper and garlic powder. So I am going to cook this up now. I had a great plan of how this was going to go. It was just going to stay in a nice solid patty and I was going to squeeze it onto the pan but that clearly is not going to work for me. One, two, act! I don't know how I'm going to get that back off but at least it will contain it for now. Put them aside on my plate. Gotta make room for the pancakes. They already started to cook in the sun. Oh yeah. Went about as expected. The pancake's a bit of a fail but that's okay. Which side looks better? They both look kind of sad so. You ready to see the finished product? That's an entire feast right there. You know the unfortunate fact is I was hungry about 20 minutes ago and I'm not really hungry anymore. Well there you have it. I got my feast. I got a hike to a lake. I didn't combine the two sadly but maybe next time. For now I'm going to enjoy the rest of this and then head to town to work.