Day: February 21, 2020💾

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Great Lakes, Not so Great Ice

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Great Lakes, Not so Great Ice

Each winter, at least part of North America’s Great Lakes freeze. But whether the year is a boom or a bust for ice cover comes down to air temperatures. This season, warmth has prevailed.

Blue-green open water was still widely visible on February 14, 2020, when the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP satellite acquired the natural-color images above. Most of the white areas are snow and clouds, but a close look along parts of the shorelines—particularly Lake Superior—reveals small patches of ice.

Last Summer Camping During the Heat Wave in August.

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Last summer during a heat wave in August, I camped down at the House Pond Campsite on Piseco-Powley Road. I hadn’t camp there in years, but this turned out to be a really nice campsite with a perfect little swimming hole just across the road.

Swimming hole with a good book

Happy Place

I think over the years, the campsite has expanded somewhat, with the fire pit pushed back further, and more room to hang a tarp or pitch a tent. There also is a nice little outhouse up on the hill in back of it.

Camp

Spent lots of time reading a book, laying back in a hammock on the hill above.

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I also hiked back to House Pond, which was not all that impressive, but I did find some bear poop up that way.

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Fortunately though, I didn’t see any bears, because I spent most of my weekend eating clams and sweet corn and drinking lots of beer.

Cooking Clams