I think this is in the right sub, if not please move it.
Have just come back from a week hiking in Norway and after one new experience I've been (quite literally) itching to ask some advice.
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Picture this if you will: You're walking through quiet, dark and damp woodland and calmly observe there's a particularly high concentration of biting insects in the air this evening, contenting yourself that you're appropriately covered and have nothing particularly sensitive exposed. Just then, you happen upon a sweating and red-faced individual - trousers round his ankles and squatting in blatant discomfort. He's whipping his head left and right, slapping frantically at his own bared cheeks, and cursing and gnashing like something possessed. All while apparently attempting to relax enough to 'let go'.
This plays out for a minute or so before he stands, muttering maniacally, and waddles off about 10 meters. He angrily attacks the ground with his digging stick before repeating the image for another unfulfilling minute. He tries a few more locations before re-suiting and swaggering uncomfortably off to convince himself that his metabolism is in fact so efficient that it actually produces no waste at all...
*So then, when doing the business, are there any suggestions for evading being bitten on the areas where you really don't want to be bitten?
Short of carrying disposable 'head' nets
I can't think of how something that typically requires a certain level of comfort and relaxation can be achieved under such circumstances.
Have just come back from a week hiking in Norway and after one new experience I've been (quite literally) itching to ask some advice.
(Skip to * for the question.)
Picture this if you will: You're walking through quiet, dark and damp woodland and calmly observe there's a particularly high concentration of biting insects in the air this evening, contenting yourself that you're appropriately covered and have nothing particularly sensitive exposed. Just then, you happen upon a sweating and red-faced individual - trousers round his ankles and squatting in blatant discomfort. He's whipping his head left and right, slapping frantically at his own bared cheeks, and cursing and gnashing like something possessed. All while apparently attempting to relax enough to 'let go'.
This plays out for a minute or so before he stands, muttering maniacally, and waddles off about 10 meters. He angrily attacks the ground with his digging stick before repeating the image for another unfulfilling minute. He tries a few more locations before re-suiting and swaggering uncomfortably off to convince himself that his metabolism is in fact so efficient that it actually produces no waste at all...
*So then, when doing the business, are there any suggestions for evading being bitten on the areas where you really don't want to be bitten?
Short of carrying disposable 'head' nets
I can't think of how something that typically requires a certain level of comfort and relaxation can be achieved under such circumstances.
