Oh. My. Gosh. I have never seen so many mosquitos in my life. Most of you know, I'm not one to be bothered by bugs, but sometimes on our breaks - the only time we sat still for more than 30 seconds - I would start feeling slightly panicky to see hundreds of mosquitos all swarming around me like zombies waiting to take my blood. I ended up wearing my rain jacket and a head net over my hard hat, but still the number of them was astonishing. You could slap your leg once, miss half of them, and still have five dead mosquitos. And the sound of them! That was enough to drive me crazy. I hope I never have to go through that again.
If it weren't for the mosquitos (!!!!SO MANY!) it would have been a perfect spike. We hiked in with power movers - basically motorized wheel barrows - 6 miles and got to a sixty-year-old log cabin. That was basically our base for the week. We had a pet mouse. We used the power movers to move around tons of dirt and redo the trails. It was hard, hard work.
So, a word about the mule deer. It's not hunting season yet, so they basically react to us like we're trees. Only, they're salt starved from the winter, so they hang out around camp to - yes - lick our pee. Once of the guys at our house said one came up and started licking the ground before he was even done. Awkward.
Well, people are leaving. We're going on a road trip with our six days off, then back to the MAC for a week. Yay!
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