Damn, I'm sore.

[spacebug]

Got back a bit ago from the impromptu camping trip with s4. Apparently the memory of the largely uphill, mile-long hike to the Afton campground was fuzzy and a little easier when my dear boy was in high school. No matter, we're tough, and our way-out site was very nice and secluded, allowing me to do things like whup around fire without getting noticed or in trouble. (It'd still probably be best if we didn't tell my mom, though.) This is my second attempt with real, live fire, and the first in total darkness or with photographic evidence. s4 took some damn fine















Anyone else excited for Burning Man?
heeheehee...

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[vaxjo.livejournal.com]

How were the bugs? I ready to go camping now, but I'm afraid of all the mosquitos.

(Last year, about this time, Urs & I went camping; at quarter to 10p we decided we'd made a terrible mistake in not brining long pants/long sleeved shirts because the 'squitos were just awful. We raced to, ugh, walmart, and bought some cheap crap to wear so as to keep the bugs off. I like bugs. Just not when they're biting me.)

[spacebug.livejournal.com]

The mosquitos were pretty awful. They abated pretty well once we had a fire going, and they were okay during the day 'cause there was a nice breeze, but they were terrible around dusk. And we did* have long pants and sleeves, but they could bite through them a lot of the time. They did make good motivators not to rest so much on our hike up to the site, though...

[vaxjo.livejournal.com]

I realize you hiked in, but if you bring (or rent) bicycles, and happen to be in a park that has bike trails, that's a good way to get away from the bugs. Swimming is excellent, of course, as well. We did a lot of both these things to escape the bugs and the heat.

Maybe I'll petition beth & joe to go camping with them near the end of August.

[s4.livejournal.com]

We purchased this neato eucalyptus lotion repellant. it worked really well, to avoid the sun-down mosquitoes, but during the hike it sweated right off, and the bugs found the places it was not. We also ended up working it into our hair. and clothes and stuff.

So yeah, the bugs were bad at sunset. Bad in the swampy woodsy part of the park. Persistent at finding ways through our defenses. But not a one in the tent overnight, and none in the morning.