My feet in the BWCA

We went up north for a few days to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wildnerness. It's hardly a wilderness any more, what with all the day-trippers and hordes of scout troops and visitors from far and near, and the motorboats on some of the lakes, and the moose vanishing due to global climate change, and the satellites that pass by overhead, and the gps and cell phones. But, you know, it's still beautiful and all. It's just not wilderness any more, and maybe never was, unless you count the BWCA that lives in your romantic heart.