On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:30:45 -0800, "John R. Carroll"
wrote:

Don Foreman wrote:
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:05:24 -0500, Ignoramus11847
wrote:

On 2010-04-13, Steve B wrote:

I also glance at the area around my ass every ten to fifteen
seconds to avoid another scorpion sting.
...
I'm freezing my ass off on this stupid hill because my lap warmer
is running out of juice, and I can't recharge it until the sun
comes up in a few
...
OK, enough. Snuffie will be up soon, so I have to get back to my
hole. Covering my tracks in the snow takes a lot of practice, but
I'm good at it.

I have never heard of scorpions living in the snow.

Otherwise, the story is very touching.

i

They do live in snowy areas including Afghanistan. They go dormant
and don't hunt during cold conditions, but they can come out of
dormancy quite quickly. (see cite) If this guy sometimes has a
working lap warmer and the scorpions can sense that, he may well
attract them and get nailed periodically as looking like a food
opportunity.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...scorpions.html

The only way a scorpion will attack a human is if you step on it, or
otherwise muck it around.
Sort of like what a person might do to one closing in an anything warm and
in your lap.
I handled them when I was living in NM and didn't suffer from the
experience.
Not from a sting anyway.

They'll crawl into boots, attracted by residual warmth, so if one
takes off boots on bivouac where scorpions be it's a good idea to
shake boots good before putting them back on.

Scorpions are predators, so their degree of aggressiveness will depend
on ambient temperature and level of hunger. I recall one in a
C-ration can, hot weather, hitting that sucker like a stacatto cymbal.