[pct-l] Best On The Crest annual update complete

[David Plotnikoff]

Hello from a longtime list lurker.

We're now celebrating 10 fine years of nasty diners and sketchy 
motels along the PCT. The annual update of Best On The Crest, the 
definitive guide to restaurants and lodging in towns along the PCT -- 
http://www.emeraldlake.com/pctguide/  -- is complete. Not a major 
update. Dead links corrected. Restaurant hours tweaked. Several harsh 
assessments mellowed with the passing of years.

Some highlights to note: The hiker hostel in Cascade Locks in the 
venerable Salmon Row Pub is still on indefinite hold. Hyatt Lake is 
running full bore with fancy cabins and a killer pizza joint, despite 
ongoing legal action to shut the operation down. Warner Springs Ranch 
sold to an Indian tribe, with no major changes announced. 
Independence finally gets a restaurant that is not a Subway sandwich 
shop in a gas station or a frou-frou French Colonial bistro. Beefed 
up restaurant listings for Mammoth Lakes. Belden Town Resort MAY be 
cleaned up and offering cabins. The Cascadia in Skykomish (hotel and 
main eatery and bar) MAY close down for the summer season due to the 
railroad's continued excavation of downtown Sky.

That's all the news that's fit to print.

As always, send additions, corrections and general bellyaching to 
feedback at emeraldlake.com

My very best wishes to the Class of 2010.

David Plotnikoff
david at emeraldlake.com