One Pan Wonders

I spent the weekend hocking books, talking food, testing recipes and hanging out with some of my favorite hiker trash at PCT days in Cascade Locs. The kidling insisted on wearing her new Snow White dress. I figured my fellow hiker trash would love that – and they did. Big huge thanks to Nabor J who organized the entire thing.

An awesome time was had by all. There was a keg and music (no band like they had last year though). I was a vendor and had a booth between Six Moon Designs and Trail Designs. It was really fun hanging out with the other vendors, even if I was the only girl.

Next Adventure was also there. I talked to the guys (again) about them carrying my book in their store and also about doing food presentations for them, so hopefully that will be in the works soon.

Saturday was the big day. I spent the day manning my booth, while Hoosierdaddy and the kidling drove hikers around. I had lots of volunteers to test recipes. Lots and lots of recipes. Bunch of moochies! LOL. I did take a ton of notes on what to change to make things “just right”.

Squatch and Lint

Nabor J and Squatch MC’d the raffle, Squatch talking trash as could be expected. I missed most of it because I was at my booth, but he had great things to say about the food I had been feeding him all afternoon. I am not sure who ended up with a copy of my book. Also given away were stoves, packs, tents and more! I think Nabor J said the raffle raised over $5000 for the PCTA. AWESOME!

We had dinner and really good local beers (Walking Man) at the PCT pub, with Suge and Pickles then headed back to see the featured movie, Wizards of the PCT. I had seen the previews, and I know Jester, so I was sure it was going to be good. It was excellent! Buy it now! (I will post a full review when I receive my copy of the movie.) Watching hiker videos is always so much more fun when you are sitting with a bunch of other hikers. They also showed two of Squatch’s movies over the weekend.



I woke up late Sunday morning and stumbled out of bed. I managed to sell a few more books out of the back of my car as I was packing up. I handed out all of my leftover hiker meals to Weather Carrot and Big John, who are currently hiking the PCT. They are supposed to report back to me on how they liked the food.

We went back to the Cascade (with everyone else in town it seemed) for coffee and breakfast. We had ok service, but they were extremely short handed. Food was good, but you had to wait for it.

After breakfast, we headed back to camp to break down and say our goodbyes. Hoosierdaddy was shuttling some hikers down to Barlow Pass before heading home. I took the kidling to the playground to run off some energy before our big drive. We made it home by 3pm.