Quote Originally Posted by Miguel View Post
You haven't truly endured until you've camped during the height of Black Fly season in the New York Adirondacks. I've seen them reduce grown men to blithering idiots.
Or Baxter SP during the peak of a particularly bad blackfly season w/out any bug netting or bug dope.

That was me last summer. Got so bad I had to spend a couple days in Monson recovering from an allergic reaction before getting back on the AT.