[pct-l] Mosquitos

[t.n. turner]

Oh so sorry, I didn't mean to insinuate that *I* wash on trail! My bad.
If you ever got close you'd know how often I wash<smile>!!!

tammy

> From: jerrygoller at backpackgeartest.org
> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 12:41:05 -0600
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Mosquitos
> 
> You *wash* on the trail??? What a concept....   ;o)
> 
> The accumulating stink just helps keep them away......   =o)
> 
> Jerry
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net]
> On Behalf Of t.n. turner
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 10:50 AM
> To: Paul Cronshaw; pct-l at backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Mosquitos
> 
> 
> So I've seen here in this thread lots of folks saying that DEET is a last
> resort for many reasons. It isn't a resort at all for me as I, too, have a
> severe reaction to it when I apply it to my skin and a lesser one in sinus
> headache, when I apply it to my clothes or smell it on others. The headache
> is almost as bad as I get with some of the perfumes I get a whiff of from
> day hikers and tourists in towns (I get them in my regular life too). 
> 
> Regardless of all this, my concern continues to be; do any of the people who
> wear DEET, or even sunblock, do you wash it off before you put your
> hands/body in the water sources?? I asked that of a group of boy scouts that
> were foul with DEET and sunblock, and their 'leader' smiled ruefully at them
> and said "See? I'm not the only one." (or words to that effect) So, do you?
> do you even remember that you've put something on your hands and body that
> might harm the water source and hence the little creatures, frogs, water
> bugs, fish?? 
> 
> Okay, sorry but that has bugged me for years!!! And just in case someone is
> going to ask me, yes I do remember, I wash each night and if I'm going to
> use sunblock, I try to get my water before the need of sunblock has arisen,
> if not, I clean my hands, away from the water source, then get the water.
> Yep, pretty much a weird human about this one. I also only used sunblock in
> SoCal last year for the first week or so and the first few days this year in
> NoCal! (I know I can still get skin cancer, but. . .)
> 
> Have a great Monday all!! Thanks for letting me vent on DEET and water
> sources!
> tammy t.
> 
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