EC, you must always travel in areas that freeze frequently.
The Lower Mainland and parts of Vancouver Island, even the dry parts of the Okanagan are fairly bug-free, but anywhere else it's got to be frost.
I've been eaten alive from one end of the province to the other, be it on the ocean, up a mountain, or anyplace in between.
I could still show you the two pits from when horseflies took bites out of my right arm a few years ago when I was hiking up near, well, a little closer to Likely but not far from Horsefly, in the Cariboo.
Mind you, there's nothing I've seen in BC anywhere near as bad as, say, the 50-foot-tall mosquito clouds out in the St. Lawrence south of Montreal, or the forboding sound produced by your own personal flying escort of blood-suckers, audibly buzzing in anticipation, that unrelentingly dog any living being during the brief summer of Winnipeg after it rains.
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