Camping, News and RSS feeds

The camping trip to Porcupine Mountain Wilderness Area was mostly good.  We stayed at a cabin right on Lake Superior. The benefit of staying in a cabin was that we could lock our gear in, and go for long day hikes. This allowed us to see much more of the park than we would have been able to were we carrying packs. Coming from Nashville, Michigan's Upper Peninsula was surprisingly cold even in May. One stream crossing required that I take my boots off and walk through knee-deep water. This was a shocking experience. In addition to the cold there was a lot of mud, which, I assume, came from snow-melt. Two of us got quite good at what we called swamp-hopping, whereby we would traverse a hundred or so feet of muck by hoping from dry tree-stump, to rock, to downed branch in an attempt to keep our feet dry. The third in our group opted to march straight through and his boots and pant-legs were caked in mud by the time we were done. Aside from the cold and muck, the park was nice. The sections of shore along Lake Superior were quite beautiful and there was almost no one in the park. The few in the park besides us were fishing the creeks and streams. One evening we watched a kid walk by with a fish the size of his arm. 

Upon returning I fired up a my news reader and noted that I had eight bajillion unread items. I tried to scan the list to get a sense of the major events and failed. The problem is that "Typhoon in Myanmar" and "McCain Eats Pancakes in NJ" gets the same billing, and when you have eight bajillion items to scroll through it's hard to be discriminating. I've decided to go back to some of the news websites that I used to read and see what's on the front page at least.