It's a welcoming, pleasant place, Callahan's Lodge & Restaurant near Mt Ashland, where I showed up early this morning, greeted by Brandon at the front desk, again (he gave me a very enthusiastic spiel about what services they offered PCT hikers the other day when I first scouted out the place.) This time, I asked whether there might be a table with power outlet I might be able to use with my laptop for a few hours, explaining my crashed disk situation. "Why of course, and stay as long as you need" was his response, and it turned out that every single table had a power outlet. The cook and waitress hadn't showed up yet, as I had arrived a half hour before it opened. But he provided me coffee, and when the waitress arrived, I had the "hiker's special" breakfast of eggs and bacon and all-you-can eat pancakes. It took me two hours to finish the first three 10inch pancakes provided. With all the coffee I could drink. Another few hours later, the crew changed and I had a late afternoon lunch of a very tasty smoked salmon BLT. Later still, I had a peppermint tea, while the classical guitar pieces playing in the background was replaced with a live singer-guitarist. A few other PCT hikers had come and gone in the morning, and midday the outside porch filled with families and other small groups. Now a bit of mild chatter is coming from a few tables inside.
All this time I've been backing up and "recovering" every possible scrap of data from my CF cards and now, finally, working on the USB hard drive in question. This all is going to my new MyBook 4TB backup drive. While waiting for this copy& recovery to crawl along in the background, I've also been able to do a bit of other housekeeping on my smartphone, in particular solving the problem that caused a half-day delay in my ability to have access to my phone's sd-card while android scanned the card for errors, confirming that the cause was the thousands of map tiles I my main app, BCNav (Back Country Navigator) had stored on the "raw" file system in the card. The BCNav developer had pretty much acknowledged the problem and had provided an alternative way to download map tiles into "packages". After I had deleted the entire "raw" filesystem map tile hierarchy for the old maps I had already passed through, and then downloaded new maps for my upcoming sections into named packages", I am now able to shut off my phone to change batteries etc, and have the app up and running quickly after rebooting my phone. Yay!
I won't have time today to review exactly what I've recovered off my CF cards (and still working on the USB drive that crashed,) but I'm fairly sure I've now done everything I could possibly do, given that it's still just sealing the barn door shut after the escape has happened. Very grateful to the folk at Callahans for allowing me to accomplish this.
"More hot water?" I've been asked. "yeah sure!" I'm making the best of it.
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