June 2001
Olympic National Forest near Sequim and Port Angeles

This Red Squirrel called at me over and over again.  Was it trying to drive me away?
I enjoyed camping out by myself.
It was about a three hour hike from where I parked my vehicle to the survey site for the following morning.  So I came prepared to
camp.  Unfornatuneately I assumed the tent had a cover for insulation because I was told it was complete before I borrowed it from a
coworker.  It didn't and I was pissed off that I took just a moment to check if it did before I left.  Rather than going back and
repeating the survey the next day I decided to stay and rough it.  So at over 7,000' feet I froze my A*$ off.  I completed the survey
that morning though.
The moral of the story.........never assume: It's the mother of all mistakes.