If anyone has any good tips on beating the midges, please share them!
I got absolutely devoured this weekend up by Loch Latrine (edit: Katrine) (completely forgot it was midge season, so I was unprepared).
In the company of my family, I can only find some small comfort in the evident fact that I protect them by being so fucking delicious that the little flying bastards are gagging for a piece of me and so ignore them. And no, I am not prepared to be a ritual sacrifice for you and yours as well. Fuck, I hate the midges.
I’ve been reading up on them and apparently the females bite to feed on blood in order to mature their eggs, which they can lay & hatch in 24h…so if you’re in one place for more than a day it may actually get progressively worse.
“I was a hossenfeffer biter, like my mother, and my mother’s mother, and my mother’s mother’s mother…”
Flamethrower
Whose hair is that?
Remnants of my small child, we sacrificed her to the midges to save ourselves. RIP
(It’s a guyline tied up on the outside of the tent)
You’re already doing it. They can’t get in the tent. Just stay in the tent. If you didn’t stake the tent down, you should be able to move around the area by hopping in the tent.
Also: You willingly are camping in an area known as Loch Latrine? Does it smell like it sounds? 🤭
Smidge! Buy smidge. It works really well against a variety of biting things.