[pct-l] Mosquitos

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good morning,

It's called pepper spray, OC spray, or Oleoresin Capsicum.

Steel-Eye
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On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 8:05 AM, <lilacs007 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> What's the spray for jerks called?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: CHUCK CHELIN <steeleye at wildblue.net>
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> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 07:58:47
> To: PCT listserve<pct-l at backcountry.net>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Mosquitos
>
> Good morning, Brett,
>
> The options for dealing with mosquitoes are limited:
>
>       1)  Try to adapt to the inevitability by keeping the whinny little
> varmints at arm’s reach with DEET and nets.  You’ll be frustrated,
> aggravated, and in insecure the entire time, but you will at least be
> (mostly) bite-free.
>
> 2  2)  Try to tolerate their inevitability by relaxing behind the DEET and
> nets.  Eventually they can be tuned-out.  I find it helpful that I have
> high-frequency hearing loss, so I rarely hear them.
>
> 3   3)  Accept the lack of ability to adapt or tolerate the critters, and
> just stay off any portion of the trail known – or suspected -- to be a
> problem.  Unfortunately, that portion is a high percentage of the PCT
> during thru-hiking season.
>
> That thought same process applies to other difficulties along the trail
> such as ticks, heat, dust, cold, snowpack, wind, glaring sun, fog, rain,
> rough trail tread, lack of water, excessive water, and jerks.
>
> Steel-Eye
>
> -Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965
>
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> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Brett Kenney <tribalattorney at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > I hate, hate, hate mosquitos.  How do you deal with them on the trail?
> >  DEET?  Mesh head cover?
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