I will absolutely look into smidge! The buggers up here seem to listen to bug spray, but the ones in the woods in Oregon don't give any shits unless its pure deet.
The roads get pretty quiet once you get a few hundred km north of Vancouver BC. And in Northern BC and Yukon, you can go for stretches without seeing a single car. We'll see how crazy quiet things are once I reach the Dempster Highway.
It has been a godsend for me as I am one of those folk who just get eaten alive by horse flies, mosquitos, midges, sand flies and anything that bites.
I have genuinely been untroubled by a single bite since I started using it and I was using all the max formula ones before
And I bet you don't have to use much, either. Just a ... smidge.
Hahaha!! Boom boom!