[pct-l] sleeping w/Mosquitos buzzing - use earplugs!
Stephen
reddirt2 at earthlink.net
Sun Feb 8 14:42:09 CST 2009
What if it's warm out?
----- Original Message -----
From: "GARY HEBERT" <hikerfedex at gmail.com>
To: <Pct-l at backcountry.net>; <at-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 6:06 AM
Subject: [pct-l] sleeping w/Mosquitos buzzing - use earplugs!
> Just remembered something else I tried on my AT thru that really worked!
> When sleeping in mosquito season with my sleeping bag snugged up around
> bug
> head net the skeeters couldn't get me, but their incessant buzzing around
> my
> head net kept me awake for a couple hours til around 11pm typically.
> (Years
> of conditioning that their buzz is normally followed by a landing and a
> bite)
>
> I tried benadryl to knock me out (tylenol PM actually) - it helped.
>
> I tried using earplugs - that really worked!
>
> They couldn't get me and I couldn't hear them!
>
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