Trail Terror Recalled

Here's a piece titled "Lessons on the Bears and the Bees" coming out of Florida, in which the writer, Robert Hughes, writing for "Florida Today" recalls waking up one morning on the Appalachian Trail to discover that he had pitched his tent on top of a [below ground] yellow jacket nest.

I've never had the pleasure of that myself (though I have confronted some of these creatures of God in my backyard ... and some which had decided to burrow into the woodframe of a bedroom window of our house), but Hughes describes his feelings upon finding the buzzing company with such a deft pen that you can really picture it yourself.

Nice change from the bear stories most people tell. The only place he mentions bears is in the first sentence where he writes "Forget bears and snakes."