| Excluding one catastrophic accident, my four-day Superior Hiking Trail Trip excelled more in thoughts, beauty, efforts, distance, time and events than any wilderness trip I have previously traveled. Good news is preferable to unpleasant, yet less enjoyable to the majority of society as it is only human to derive humor from evil so I shall explain the undesirable fate of Alex Eichenod prior to the success of my trip. While sightlessly returning from a spectacular show of fireworks upon Mt. Pincushion�s summit, my unfortunate comrade saw not the mistakable trail turning off the main path. He continued his hike until he realized his mistake. While he was retracing his steps, the remainder of our party was perched on a bench a mile away from our campsite discussing Alex�s whereabouts. He was searched for throughout the course of the next 45 minutes yet his location was not discovered. We returned to camp discouraged. The trip staff organized a plan, digging out maps and emergency cash. After what seemed to be an infinite period of time, the plan was configured. James King, our trip staff, was obliged to walk many miles to Grand Marais in search a phone and support. Within the next hour, Alex retraced his path and returned to camp, while James was unaware on his trek to Grand Marais. Now the good news. Besides that significant change in the drama of our trip, I loved it. The first night, we camped on the spectacular beach of disagreeably cold Lake Superior. At dawn it was impossible to see where the horizon melted into the lake. The second day of hiking brought us to Jauger House B&B. We were hiking in the center of nowhere, many miles from civilization, when we saw a sign. It read Jauger House B&B 300 yards. We hiked up and saw a bed and breakfast! The following night we stayed at the best campsite I ever witnessed. We swam in the river ten yards away from us, hung the bear bag on the humungous bridge, signed the guest book, were bug-free, and hike up Mt. Pincussion to see an extremely enjoyable show of fireworks while on the summit. During our trip, much of out talk was philosophical including God, impossible over-population, nanotechnology, and cryonics. |
| Alex Eichenod |