![oh look, a marmot](https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/Z10020355/956800665_kooUY-M.jpg)
A good friend of mine and I went backpacking in the North Cascades a couple of weeks ago (been busy, this post is a bit late), setting up camp on the slopes of Mt Baker – unfortunately the weather prevented us from seeing it clearly except from a distance on the hike up to camp.