Cold Weather Camping

In 2005, I started hiking the AT in January. It was cold. Frozen snot on your nose cold. A high of 22 degrees Fahrenheit made me rethink winter hiking. But if you are going here are a couple of good articles on cold weather camping. Pilot-Intelligencer and Tribune-Review.

Hiking Roundup

The search for missing IRS agent has been called off.

Missing hiker found in Canada.

Missing hiker in Hawaii.

Gloom and Doom

I think of the plague as something from mid evil times but, an Arizona biologist likely died from the plague.

A wildlife biologist at Grand Canyon National Park most likely died from the plague contracted while performing a necropsy on a mountain lion that later tested positive for the disease, officials said Friday.

Yellowstone may blow.

A big blob of molten rock appears to be pushing up remnants of an ancient volcano in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, scientists reported on Friday.

Things are not going well in Afghanistan or Iraq this year.

The six deaths brings the number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan this year to at least 101, according to an Associated Press count, surpassing the 93 troops killed in 2005. About 87 died last year. The toll echoes the situation in Iraq, where U.S. military deaths this year surpassed 850, also a record.

We are having a hard time keeping our children alive.

The United States ranks near the bottom for infant survival rates among modernized nations.