Friday, 16 July 2010

Midges

For anyone worrying about midges on their next backpacking trip to Scotland, but not too worried about weight, here's the very thing seen by Loch Morar:

5 comments:

  1. Wonder if they do a pocket version.

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  2. You're an engineer so I wait with interest for the product launch! Don't forget you saw it here first when it comes to sharing royalties Alan!

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  3. I think Ray Mears may have one already in his Bergen.

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  4. I have watched them crawling through the mesh of the fly screens of my caravan windows. I hope the designers of the Loch Morar item have not succumbed to the same design fault.

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  5. The Odyssee - come to think of it I thinks the small versions are called Midge Hoods!

    Sir Hugh - I've had the same experience but we were able to get close enough to see that the screen looked more like the mesh on a midge hood than the useless stuff on caravans and motorcaravans.

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