Back in 06 or 07 my dad and I went up to the Q for our annual trip. I think we were on Shade lake at the time ( or another in the S chain with a LARGE hill behind the campsite on a penninsula...possibly Burke). My dad got up really early one day for his morning constitutional and hiked up the hill with trowel and TP. He dug himself a nice hole and dropped trow to admire his view from a truly magnificent thrown. Just as he was finishing up he heard a buzzing. LOTS of buzzing. His calm looking around for the source soon became alarmed panic as he saw not 6" from his freshly filled hole was a hornets nest in the ground. To this day I don't know how he didn't get stung but when he got back to camp he was still white with terror with what could have been a truly awful bee sting. I don't even know what we would have done to treat him had those hornets decided to attack his nether-regions.

To this day however, it provides quite a bit of comic relief and I assure you he checks about a 20' square area before picking a place to fertilize the woods now. ;D


BTW, what a great thread