[pct-l] Alien space probe or ???

[enyapjr at adelphia.net (enyapjr@adelphia.net)]

Steel-Eye wrote:  "Apparently you young whipper-snappers don't remember what mosquitoes were like a few years back when they had to make a living dip-sticking the wooly mammoth population.  They had to have quite a beak on them...

They all eventually died-out, of course ... starved to death."

I hate to disagree, but they didn't totally die out...  there are some enclaves of subspecies that rapidly evolved shorter proboscises (in all likelihood survivors of those "glance off a tough 'ol bugger and nail a rock with that beak" incidents that lived at least long enough to mate)...  WARNING: You CANNOT outrun these subspecies (due to their size and wingspan), and they have also evolved an immunity to or even a liking for 100% DEET (after all, their ancestors favorite was Wooly Mammoth - wet, stinky Wooly Mammoth!)...  Most likely locations of these subspecies greatly increase in frequency the further North you go (especially so in lake country and taiga of Canada and Alaska) - if you are in Bigfoot (the current closest look-alike to the hairy Wooly Mammoth) country or further North, be prepared!  Make your own super-skeeter proof clothing out of aluminum (NOT plastic) window screen, unless you can afford titanium or platinum...  'An ounce of prevention' (in this case, approximately 5 pounds - more, of course, if you also make the suggested bivy) is definitely worth it.  If you bend their beaks over after they try biting you through the wire screen, you won't notice the weight as much (until they die and become 'dead weight' - so try to remember to pry off the ones that have expired and quit flapping their wings!)...  Also, playing Barry Manilow or Tiny Tim recordings at full volume will keep them back temporarily (the time varies, but I think it depends on how long it takes for them to either go deaf or totally insane and suicidal) - WARNING: DO NOT do this with ear buds or headphones! (YOU will definitely go insane BEFORE them)  Use a player with a speaker!...  So, BE PREPARED!

; - )   TIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!   ; - )

Happy trails!  Happy hiking... er, jogging...  or RUNNING, whatever!

Ps:  There is also some speculation in northern California that the holes might be made either by the Lemurians (venturing out from under Mount Shasta) looking for diet enhancing minerals (they are running low inside Shasta after all this time) or the Bigfoot species starting to use oversized trekking poles (after seeing so many PCTers pass by using them)...  ; - )