Kurt Treftz, one of my closest friends and Best Man at my wedding to Kristina, here on our dayhike in the North Cascades on a sunny October day in 2009. He was a huge help back in 2008 when he came out and bought the backup generator from me stored in a shed at the River House. It was so incredibly heavy, and old gasoline had dried and turned gummy inside the tubes and hoses. We finally got it into the back of his truck. He placed it at his own cabin outside Marblemount on the edge of North Cascades National Park.