Hatching a menace - Mosquitoes, black flies back for a bite.(Sports)

From: The Boston Herald | Date: May 21, 2000| Author: O'Connor, Michael | Copyright information

Aaaaahhh, spring in the outdoors: a time for testing new hiking boots and tents, fishing gear and lightweight Gore-Tex ... and for testing one's ability to withstand the annual onslaught of mosquitoes and black flies.

This reporter has unrolled his sleeping bag on a Vermont ridgetop, only to be half-drowned by a midnight rainstorm; had his stove catch on fire, and nearly burn down the campsite; and been stuck in a snowmelt-flooded stream, unable to move forward or back B...

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