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Article: Reindeer games: Iceland's beautiful backcountry is the setting for a fascinating hunt.
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- Sports Afield
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- April 1, 2007
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When you're walking across a rain-soaked bog on a high-mountain plateau in Iceland under a sunny, windless sky in early September, there are seven words that are as sweet as any you can imagine.
The mosquito does not exist in Iceland.
My guide, Bjorn Birgisson, uttered these beautiful words when I asked why we were not being assaulted as we hiked for mile after mile through a succession of lichenladen bogs. Had we been walking through this terrain in northern Quebec, we'd have been eaten alive.
But while the landscape was somewhat similar to arctic Canada, we were much farther to the east, in the island nation of Iceland. And had we been in ...
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