Don Hammer wrote:
: The north slope of Alaska - 2700 ft of permafrost. Temperatures for
: most of the year that will freeze all exposed skin in less than 20
: min. For a few weeks in the middle of the year it thaws out about the
: top 6" of that. The "National Bird of Alaska" comes out. Mosquitoes
: so bad they will kill an unprotected you in less than a day. BTW This
: cold hell is what ANWR looks like, not Bambi in the forest.

Lived in Alaska, too... yes the mosquitos are vicious and can kill you
if unprotected for long enough.

I don't know that I agree with the term "hell" though.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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