Course Description: Campfire Cooking: Mastering the Dutch Oven

Take your outdoor cooking skills to the next level with the timeless art of Dutch oven cooking. In this hands-on class, you'll learn how to prepare delicious meals over a campfire using cast iron cookware, foil and charcoal. Whether you're camping, hunting, overlanding or simply enjoying your backyard fire pit, you'll gain practical techniques for creating flavorful, satisfying meals in the outdoors. Discover how to select the right Dutch oven for your cooking style, control cooking temperatures with charcoal and properly season, clean and care for cast iron cookware. Working together, the class will prepare a complete three-course campfire meal while building the confidence and skills to recreate these recipes on your own adventures. No previous camp cooking experience is required, just come ready to cook, learn, and enjoy great food around the fire.

Course Details: (seats remaining)

Schedule:

Every week on Thursday, starting on 11/05/26 and ending on 11/19/26

Times:

06:00pm-08:00pm PST

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Price:

Class Price : $229.00

Additional Course Information

Final class session is field day, location TBD. Students will meet at Chandler Lab, then self-transport to the location. Please bring a lunch, water and snacks. Dress for the weather. Required textbook, Bushcraft Basics: A Common Sense Wilderness Survival Handbook, will be provided.

Instructors

Name

Additional Resources

Leon Pantenburg

Biography:

Leon Pantenburgis a devoted wilderness enthusiast, writer, and educator whose practical approachto survival blends real-world experience with everyday common sense. With alifelong passion for the outdoors, Leon has backpacked in numerous mountainranges, canoed the entire length of the Mississippi River, and served as aScouting USA leader helping teach wilderness survival skills. His understandingof rural living and self-reliance was shaped further by a career as ajournalist and community-college communications instructor. He developed a keeneye for evaluating information and teaching practical skills. (survivalcommonsense.com)

In 2009, Leonlaunched his website, SurvivalCommonSense.com, to offer accessible andrealistic guidance on surviving both wilderness and urban emergencies. (survivalcommonsense.com) Rather than claiming to bea "survival expert," he emphasizes that preparedness hinges on sound judgement,straightforward skills and a resilient mindset: "Survival - in any situation -is a science, and the skills and techniques to survive can be learned." (survivalcommonsense.com) Today, Leon brings thissame philosophy to our community-college course, where he will guide studentsthrough core survival principles, hands-on techniques, and the mental frameworkneeded to confidently navigate unexpected challenges in the wild or in urbansettings.

Facility Detail

COCC Cascades Hall

CAS 246

2600 NW College Way

Bend, OR 97703

Cancellation Policy

Students must cancel by contacting our office via phone: (541) 383-7270 or email: ceinfo@cocc.edu. Cancellations received 5 days prior to the start of the class will receive a full refund. Full refunds are also issued for classes cancelled by COCC. Refunds will be issued back to your card or in the form of a check and mailed within two weeks of the cancellation date if paid by check or cash. Failure to participate in a course or program does not result in a refund. Exceptions to the general refund policy are noted in the course descriptions on our website and in the printed schedule. If you have any questions, please call us at (541) 383-7270.