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Ice fishing leaves an experience afterglow, a pleasant, tingly emotional windburn.

It was last March; I was in Washington, D.C. during a tremendous windstorm that grounded planes for days and left my face sore from windburn.

And Rigel’s protocol did not disqualify subjects from participating if they had skied on recent earlier days and had 0.5 or less erythema or windburn.

Burlapping, he explained, has long been used as protection against frost, heavy snowfall, windburn and the deer that have proliferated on the East End in recent years.

In these, my sister and I grin into the camera, hair knotted, our cheeks red and scaly with windburn.