Archive for Mount Hood
Oregon beers
Posted in Mountains, Travel, Wines with tags AF beer, alcohol-free beers, Deschutes Brewery, microbrewery, Mount Hood, Oregon Trail, Portland, USA on October 20, 2024 by xi'an
a journal of the Pacific and Northwest tƿēnight
Posted in Books, Kids, Mountains, pictures, Running, Travel, University life with tags 10k, Africa, Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda, bagels, bakery, Barnes & Noble, book review, boulangerie, bread making, COVID-19, farmers' market, First Nations, frijoles, glacier, huckleberry, Journal of the Plague Year, JSM 2024, Miguel de Cervantes, Mount Baker, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Mount Hood, Netflix, Oregon, Pacific North West, Paris 2024 Olympics, Portland, ramen, Russian invasion, rye bread, Seattle, sequel, skillet, smoked salmon, spelt, Thai cuisine, Ukraine, USA, wheat, William Marx, William McIlvanney, wynn rune on September 7, 2024 by xi'an
Read both the first (1605) and the second (1615) books of Don Quixote along with the (William) Marx commentary (Un été avec Don Quichotte) over the PNW vacations, a delight in discovering how modern it is! Even modern enough to write a follow-up (II) and to initiate the meme that sequels are not as good as the original, although the parts where Don Quixote and Sancho Panza debate of their own characters in tome I are hilarious and the prologue of tome II made me discover a certain Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda had written a (poor) sequel of his own, published in 1614. As well as the detective novel The Heretic by Liam McIlvanney, set in Glasgow in 1975, which I enjoyed a lot (except for the lazy, easy, hurried ending), presumably due in part of the references to places near the U of G that sounded so familiar. The political aspects are more stringent than in the earlier book. (And those of his uncle.) And Gab’s Road to Freedom, of course! Also came back from a Sunday aft at Barnes & Noble, in NE Seattle, with a pile of books that threatened to overflow my luggage allowance!
Made frijoles negros over a rainy day in Mount Hood Village. As it takes a while to soften the black beans and then further simmer them to turn them into a yummy paste, this was the perfect opportunity! And I made enough to recook the dish several days in a row, improving each time! I also learned there how to cook with an iron skillet (found in the first airbnb cabin we rented), after rescuing (overcleaning?) the skillet from its greasy state and starting the fire alarm a few times (only frightening the nearby bear, I presume). Mount Hood Village where I bought some outanding smoked salmon from a local First Nations fisherman, with a long discussion on running (as I was wearing my Huckleberry 10k tee-shirt) As I had not time at all for cooking while at JSM in Portland, I gave into the opportunity to get great lunches at Hat Hei Belmont (advertising Thai levels of spicy that remained rather mild) and Kiboshi (red) Ramen (that fuelled a great training session the next morning). While near Mount Baker (with no true bakery on the radar!, as many “bakeries” I came across neither bake nor sell bread…), I baked our daily (whole wheat if not rye) bread with a spelt substitute I had brought from France and on the same bake made a first attempt at whole wheat plain bagels, which ended up eatable if on the hard side. (Blame the oven!)
And watched no Netflix or any other video during the entire PNW trip, mostly due to early sleep – early run schedules, followed by long hikes on most days, and on top of frequently checking the Olympics events in the (PNW) mornings. And of course due to meeting with (no enough) friends during JSM! (Leaving Paris during the Olympics was presumably a wise move in this respect as I would have otherwise spent most of my days there watching events!)
A river runs through it [jatp]
Posted in Books, Mountains, pictures, Running, Travel with tags dusk, evening light, hiking trail, jatp, JSM 2024, Mount Hood, Norman MacLean, Oeeg, open water swimming, Oregon, Pacific North West, Portland, salmon, Salmon River, Spanish moss, sunset, USA, Welches on August 21, 2024 by xi'an
50 shades of green [jatp]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Running, Travel with tags jatp, John Muir, JSM 2024, mist, Mount Hood, Mount Hood National Forest, Mount Sashta, Mount Shasta, Oregon, Pacific crest trail, Timberline Lodge, US parks, USA, volcanoes, wilderness on August 19, 2024 by xi'an
2024 Huckleberry Running Festival 10K [39:28, 2nd/97, +174m, 18⁰]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Running, Travel with tags 10k, Caen, Grand Master, half-marathon, hiking, huckleberry, JSM 2024, Les Courants de la Liberté, local race, Mount Hood, Oregon, podium, road race, tee-shirt, USA, vacations, Welches, Zigzag on August 16, 2024 by xi'an
A chance glance at a local newspaper, while checking for path conditions in the Zigzag Ranger station, made me aware of a local race taking place next to our vacation rental in Mount Hood Village! I first registered for the 5K then upgraded for the 10K, as the half-marathon sounded too much, esp. after an 18K fast training three days earlier… The route was nice, with two big hills and trees all around. I kept the first runner in my radar for the first seven kilometres but he then took off and won by almost two minutes. Very happy with the result, though, despite running the 5K and 10K more slowly than in Caen last month, where the altitude differential was much more modest. Too bad the tee-shirt is not that great! But the organising team was very friendly and excited at having an international participant to the races, for the very first time.
