Junaid Omar's Home Page

Since nature abhors a linkless home page, so ...

• My Resume'
  I am a computer engineer with extensive experience in C++ programming, EDA tool development, hardware/ASIC design and verification as well as physical place and route. Here is a shamelessly biased view of my achievements ...
• My Oregon/Washington hiking diary (chronological)
• Same hiking journal sorted by location
• Trek in Baltistan area of Northern Pakistan (May 2001)
• Treks in Hunza, Gojal and Naran areas of Northern Pakistan (Sep 2004)
• Trek to Nanga Parbat Base Camp (Mazeno) -- Diamir -- Northern Pakistan (Aug 2007)
• Trek to K7 Base Camp - Baltistan-- Northern Pakistan (Aug 2007)
• Trip to Chile and Argentina (Patagonia) (Nov 2006)
• My July 1999 Alaska Travelogue
• Kronecker Lattice Diagrams and Variable Reordering
  A class project for EE572 Advanced Logic Synthesis, a course I took at Portland State in Fall '98 just for kicks.
• Some Karakoram pictures
• Why did the chicken cross the road ?
  Some helpful answers to this age-old question.

• Some of my pictures

  All my pictures on these pages are © Junaid Omar and may not be used for any commercial purpose without owner's explicit permission. My flickr Page

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My interests include :

• Travel

  I love to travel , particularly to desolate or scenic places (in most cases desolation and beauty are the same thing for me). One of my ambitions is to visit all the major national parks and monuments west of the Rockies (which also happens to be where most of them are located). So far I have chalked up Grand Canyon, Sunset Crater, Sequoia, Yosemite, Painted Desert/Petrified Forest, Saguaro, Mesa Verde, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Zion, Bryce, Arches, Natural Bridges, Rainier, Olympic, Crater Lake, Denali, Kenai Fjords, John Day, Newberry Crater, Haleakala, Rocky Mountain, Capitol Reef, Escalante . I love the Colorado Plateau and the Grand Circle i.e the area in about a 200 mile radius of the Four Corners (where AZ, UT, NM and CO meet). The Cascade range in OR and WA is another of my favorites. Interesting rock formations and prehistoric looking landscapes captivate me.
  

• Sailing

  This is a recent interest. I took a sailing class in 2007 and fell in love with this pastime. Currently I am part-owner of a 1988 Tanzer 25. I would eventually like to get into long-distance ocean sailing. The Inside Passage to Alaska is a high priority and sailing down to South America is a close second.

• Outdoors

  
  National Forests on the Web
  Federal Bureau of Land Management
  I spend most weekends in summer and spring hiking in the Columbia River gorge or in many of the national and sate forests around Portland, Oregon. See hiking log above. Some of these hikes (death-marches?) were with groups from the organizations listed below. The advantages of group hiking are knowledgeable leaders, carpooling, less danger of getting lost or hurt. The disadvantages are a rigid pace, less time to stop and gawk at nice viewpoints, obnoxious granola-types who will try to buttonhole you and start blabbering about breaching dams and raising gas prices etc.
  The Mazamas - a large hiking group in Portland that runs hikes most weekends.
  Trails Club of Oregon - another Portland hiking organization with weekend hikes. Mostly comprised of older folks, however they can cut a mean pace on the trail.
  Mountaineers - Seattle equivalent of Mazamas.
  Chemeketans - Salem, OR equivalent of Mazamas.
  Ptarmigans - Vancouver, WA hiking group
  Govt. Camp Pass Camera
  

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Questions/comments to:junaid_omar@hotmail.com
Last modified: Wed Feb 11 13:31:20 PST 2009