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A brief trip to Frenchman's Cap 24-Apr-2014 At 1:55:21 PM phillipivan

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I found the bug pretty horrifying. The thing about it isn't the noise, it's the physical feeling of something buzzing inside your head. Our ear canals aren't used to being touched in the same way other parts of our bodies are (and it was in deep enough to not be visible without the special tool doctors use to look in your ear (even with it, the student nurse was unable to find it, at least in the time before she hurt me and I told her enough)). I spent the rest of the trip, when walking below the treeline, with my ears covered (see photo of me on Baron pass). Even now Im pretty sensitive about stuff, tree branches, etc, touching my ears.

I should make it clear that Matt was both the brains and brawn of our climbing party; Im ~~not sure I~~ sure I don't deserve the title of 'guru'. Anyway, for anyone seriously contemplating a trip in the future, would it be useful to write up some gear notes (ie what we took/ what we should have taken) like I did for Ozi?