[pct-l] Deet

[Kolby Kirk]

I'm just going to wrap myself in cellophane and cut out six holes. That
should do the tick trick!

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes <
diane at santabarbarahikes.com> wrote:

> Don't bother with chemicals. If you have the infused clothing, great.
> If not, don't sweat it. Ticks are annoying but it's not worth
> stressing over. Yeah, I got a tick two weekends in a row, but I was
> hiking in some really overgrown trail where I was pushing the brush
> aside and sometimes it was scraping my neck, which is probably how
> the ticks got down my shirt. The PCT isn't overgrown like that. The
> worst you'll ever see if brush that scrapes your legs and ticks on
> your pants. Just brush them off. I never saw any ticks on the PCT in
> 2008.
>
> I went on another adventurous hike this weekend and we pulled into
> our campsite, spread out our tyvek and kicked back in the shade.
> Whenever another tick made his evil little self shown, he was flicked
> off the tyvek. Eventually we had gotten them all. Later we set up our
> tent and before bed we did a little tick inspection. Even after
> bushwacking all morning today, we came home without a tick bite on
> either one of us.
>
> Diane
>
> On Apr 16, 2011, at 6:11 PM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
> >
> > yeh that's what I thought too til yesterday...had four of them up
> > in my pants!
> > they will find a way around the deet and permitherin...they're
> > ruthless I'm
> > telling u...RUTH LESS!
> >>
> >> Sugar Moma
>
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