[pct-l] Jumping Cholla!

[Ate Tuna]

This video just might make a few people wear full height gaiters throughout
the "desert".

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:15 PM, eckert <jape1 at cox.net> wrote:

> and sometimes, a comb just isn't quite enough
>
> *http://tinyurl.com/3c5bu6p *
>
> <http://dailycontributor.com/cactus-accident-in-a-golf-course/12328/
> >eckert
>
> On 4/1/2011 7:54 PM, Alphabetsoup wrote:
> > I was out doing a conditioning hike today and thought about a little
> known
> > native plant that thrives in various places throughout the Anza-borrego
> > desert section of the PCT. the Cholla Cactus...*Pronounced (choy ya)* For
> > those of you who have never seen one, or experienced their potentially
> > painful wrath I offer you a little information...
> >
> > The wind blows little round balls of thorns off of the main plant, the
> > thorns have many tiny fish hook like protrusions that you cannot see, but
> > You will feel them, as it can take a pair of pliers to get those things
> out
> > of your skin, shoes, gear and clothes.
> >
> > All one needs to do is brush up against the plant, or be downwind of a
> > cholla cactus during a gust of wind and you've got yourself a new friend!
> >
> > Don't Panic...*Do not* try to use your hands or anything soft like
> gloves...
> > *DO *get out your comb and work it off yourself...Be sure to turn away
> from
> > your fellow hikers so your not removing it in the direction of anyone
> > else...you and your friends will find our why they call them "Jumping
> > Cholla"
> >
> > If your not carrying a comb, this is one reason to do so...
> >
> > ymmv,imho,hyoh...and all that jazz
> >
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