As you can see, I have been gone most of August. I just returned from a trip into the mountains. We had a rather overcast day which was warm enough for shorts and we were down by the lake for about 3 hours. Because the ambient air was cool, one doesn't think of sun screen, but there we were applying our sun screen. The people nearby us looked at us a bit skeptically until we pointed out they were getting a bit pink.

Just a word again about altitude. Use lots of sun screen and especially if you are around water. The refraction of the sun off of the water can give you a pretty severe burn in no time. So what if you get burned, what do you do?

First and foremost, do not put butter or oil onto the burned area. This keeps the heat in and the tissue will continue to burn. Aloe will help take the burning away, but you should also use a good moisturizer frequently on the skin. You actually lose moisture from the skin when it gets burned and you want to replace that and help it to heal.