[pct-l] Ticks

[Ned Tibbits]

Hey, Tom!

There's always the fun of snow-camping...no bugs, bears, or dirt!



Ned Tibbits, Director
Mountain Education
www.mountaineducation.org
-----Original Message----- 
From: tom aterno
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2012 4:04 PM
To: pct-l at backcountry.net
Subject: [pct-l] Ticks

For those of you on the east coast, beware that there are still active ticks 
out and about.  We bushwacked to a pond to photograph swans last Friday. 
This morning, we each found a deer tick embedded in our skin.  After 
removal, we went to urgent care and was given 200 mg of Doxycycline as a 
prophylaxis dose.  Now we have to watch the sites for developing rash. The 
temperature was 50 deg F last Friday, and we now know that ticks will be 
active at any temperature above freezing.  Lesson learned, we will stick to 
trails on the east coast in the future.

The Incredible Bulk - missing the PCT, where I never saw a tick
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