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[gwschenk at socal.rr.com]

---- CHUCK CHELIN <steeleye at wildblue.net> wrote: 
> Good afternoon, all,
> 
> After several spring/early summer trips between the border and Kennedy
> Meadows without DEET or Permethrin my S.Cal. tick-total stands at exactly
> one:  I picked up that one just south of Cajon Junction in the grassy Little
> Horsethief Canyon.

You are a man of good fortune, Chuck. Maybe it has something to do with body chemistry? My good friend George Wysup was a tick magnet, and had much interaction with the little bugs in SoCal.
http://angeles.sierraclub.org/hps/archives/hps01474.htm
http://angeles.sierraclub.org/hps/archives/hps01517.htm

Gary