[pct-l] TICK ALERT

[Gary Schenk]

Lyme Disease does not seem to be a big problem in California as yet. So 
I read, anyway. Ticks are mostly a winter and early spring proble, they 
have a "bloom" and then go away.

On 4/14/2011 3:22 PM, Toby Maxwell wrote:
> 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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