weekend

The San Juan Islands are lovely, but a real pain in the ass to get to during summer. I don't think I will do that again without my own boat (or perhaps chartered flight). Two ferries filled up on Sunday, so we had to wait 3 hours for the next one. Fortunately there was a restaurant with booze so we got shit figured out.

As for the trip itself, well, it was nice. Got in and made camp and dinner, went to bed, got up, saw a deer, made coffee then went for a walk around Cascade Lake (3m). Then after recuperating from that, we made the drive up Mt. Constitution. It had cleared up a bit by then, although there were still some low-flung clouds preventing our view of Mount Baker and such. Oh well. Reg scored at the giftshop with this great book about fire lookouts. We then got a pizza and ate it for lunch, and that was the extent of our activity. Oh we also went back to the lake to look at the moon and stars after dark.

So it was cool, although I would really like to be there in the winter next time.