> > No mosquitoes!?!? That sounds like my kind of place. I've had more good times ruined by mosquitoes than all other plagues put together. I don't care if a place has rattlesnakes, if it doesn't have mosquitoes, I like it. Besides, I've never been bitten by a rattlesnake.
> > Howard
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> No mosquitoes unless there's snow and it isn't camping.

Ah, but then you've never been Winter camping! That's when you build Quincys as shelter instead of erecting tents. You find a large drift of good, wet snow and pile it up in a round 12 feet high and stamp it down. Then dig out the insides to form a poor-man's igloo (you make the igloo doorway downwind, of course). You light a small fire inside to glaze the interior and sleep huddled together with friends in your warm winter thermal papooses. In the morning, you get up and jig for fish through the ice along the frozen river. Who says you can't have fun roughing it?

Wolfspirit