[pct-l] TICK ALERT

[Toby Maxwell]

Does anybody know about the risk of lymes disease on the PCT?  Only a few
hours away from me its a big deal, but not yet where I live in upstate new
york, so I assume it might depend on the pct as well.  Mostly I'm just
curious if I should bother to go get a test once I'm finished because I have
had it before and it doesn't always show the characteristic bulls eye.

thanks!

-Toby

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Scott Williams <baidarker at gmail.com> wrote:

> I finished my thru last year in the deserts, and found the worst tick spot
> of the whole trip was the newly reopened Sheep Fire section.  There are
> places where the dried weeds were thick in the trail, looked like old
> mustard of some kind, and the ends of the twigs were at times covered with
> ticks.  I must have picked several hundred off my legs in a half day.  The
> constant checking of my legs really slowed me down.  Maybe the lack of
> hikers for the year got them really hungry.  Anyway, spring is typically
> the
> tick season in CA, I got quite a few on my legs just the past few days in
> the Orestimba Wilderness, so I wasn't expecting to see so many of them in
> Oct. finishing in So Cal.
>
> Shroomer
>
>
> >
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