Picture a long meadow section on trail at around 7500 ft around mid July in a wet year in the Sierra Nevada. My son is up ahead with his pack on running like a madman arms flaying wildly, a cloud of mosquitos following him. You probably had to be there but I still laugh thinking about it he looked so comical.
Picture someone with a bowl of chowder trying to flail, eat and run at top speed from a bunch of meat bees, and that would have been me in Yosemite trying not to let the bees get my dinner.
I have since mastered the art of pulling it all up into my headnet with me and eating in relative safety. (Meat bees, aka wasps, will really bite you!)
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