My work up there was remodeling a flyfishing camp,adding buildings, and fixing things around the camp before the guests arrived for the season.I ran crews of unwilling and unknowledgable guides and did the thinking,planning,and the major cutting,building,etc.Most could swing hammers and that was about it,occasionally hitting the nails.
The worst part was cutting out chunks of tundra for putting down blocks of treated 2x12 wood on the "fudgecicle" frozen dirt underneath for a "foundation post".Cutting the moss was disturbing their home and they weren't very happy about that.

As long as you put the moss back around the post,the ground remained frozen underneath the post block...I spent many a day with a bug hat on..but usually just put up with them.
A good day was when the wind was blowing so hard they couldn't swarm but it was still really cold then with the wind chill even in June.A bad day was right after the rain and the humidity got sky high..then the bug swarms were thick and hungry!
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