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Re: AK Mosquitos and kids: Looking for Advice

Bugs are not bad every summer and they are not the same level of bad in all parts. It is good to be prepared. I rarely use anything, but I like having the option.


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Re: AK Mosquitos and kids: Looking for Advice

Troy Hamon wrote:Bugs are not bad every summer and they are not the same level of bad in all parts. It is good to be prepared. I rarely use anything, but I like having the option.


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Troy,

True enough, but you live where the wind blows.

When I lived in CDB, bugs were rarely even noticeable......but on the rare days/moments when the wind wasn't blowing, the little bastards would eat us alive.

And that's the ONLY good thing I'm gonna say about the wind out there.

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CamTom12 wrote:Dimensions are 92x92x84, but I can't get the weight for you until next week


No problem. I totally missed the dimensions were right on the bag in the pic you posted! Also, could you give me an idea of its size when it's packed? Thanks! No hurry. We are leaving the first week of June.


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No worries! I'll get a better measure when I weigh it, but it's about an 18-24" diameter circle and 3-4" thick in the center. Thickness tapers down towards the edges.
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Re: AK Mosquitos and kids: Looking for Advice

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Grassstrippilot wrote:
CamTom12 wrote:Dimensions are 92x92x84, but I can't get the weight for you until next week


No problem. I totally missed the dimensions were right on the bag in the pic you posted! Also, could you give me an idea of its size when it's packed? Thanks! No hurry. We are leaving the first week of June.


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No worries! I'll get a better measure when I weigh it, but it's about an 18-24" diameter circle and 3-4" thick in the center. Thickness tapers down towards the edges.


Cool! Thanks!


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Re: AK Mosquitos and kids: Looking for Advice

Keep'm out of the grass....especially on a calm day. We use deet on exposed skin and burn mosquito coils in camp. The no-see-ums....little black mustards! They do a good job of making themselves look like eye liner...


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m_moyle wrote:Keep'm out of the grass....especially on a calm day. We use deet on exposed skin and burn mosquito coils in camp. The no-see-ums....little black mustards! They do a good job of making themselves look like eye liner...


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Good advice. Our house in FAI had a large front yard, and a full width deck, only ten inches or so above the grass. We could sit out on the deck all evening without DEET, unless one of the dogs jumped off the deck into the grass.....then the hordes were disturbed and would attack.

The "no-see-ums" are a fall phenomenon, thankfully. So most of the summer they are absent. They are biting insects, we called them "flesh grabbers", vicious little bastards, and tiny, but the teeth on those buggers....

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