Travel

Well golly... I go to look at the drupal web site and it turns out there's a conference in Portland at the beginning of next month.

Any excuse to go to Waddle's. :-)

That Waddle's link, by the way, is to a 'blog by a guy who created a software company called Panic. Panic is hiring. If only I was cool enough...

Yesterday, M and I hiked up Porcupine Creek from Rainy Pass to Cutthroat Pass, in the North Cascades area of Okanagan National Forest.

[img_assist|fid=38|thumb=1|alt=Looking West From Cutthroat Pass|caption=Looking west from Cutthroat Pass down Porcupine Creek valley. North Cascades area, Okanagan National Forest.]

The trail we covered is a 5-mile segment of the Pacific Crest Trail, and the area really should be part of a wilderness preserve or national park.

The hike is mostly a moderate but insistent climb up through the valley, with a number of wide switchbacks at the eastern end. Each switchback seems to get steeper as you climb up to the pass, which connects the Porcupine Creek watershed to the Cutthroat Creek one.

Tiny alcohol stoves made out of soda cans: Zen stoves.