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midges - how were they overall ?
Hard for me to say as I can't compare them to other experiences and from what I gathered it can get a lot worse than I found it. That said, I hated them.
It was naive on my part not to have any repellant, but I didn't expect them to be in full force as I found them.It was only real bad on the West Coast, in particular when I got to Gairloch, started biting at the pub while I was having dinner, so I went on a cliff to camp, keeping in mind the "be far from water, in the wind" advice and I thought that was good as it was exposed. Well, it was full of midges. By the following day I had about 80 bites, I was itching like hell and hating life.
The right ointment worked well and being back in central/East highlands it was a lot better on the last days. But I hated having to be concerned about them the whole time, not being able to stop to enjoy a view or even having to choose camp spots based on these fuckers. As a chap from Glasgow I met on the Corrieyairack pass put it "it's a curse we have here"
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was following on strava - looked class. sorry I never made it out for a pint in the end, sure you were thankful of the rest though
saw you had some trouble w/midges - how were they overall ? can sometimes seem like they get overhyped a bit but don't think you truly appreciate how bastard annoying they are until you experience them yourself