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.

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

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