[pct-l] Mosquitos

[aslive at charter.net]

Also, don't forget to treat you clothing with Permethrin, especially 
around your hat brim, shirt collar and cuffs as well as socks and pant 
cuffs too.  Permethrin can be bought at REI and at 99 Cent Stores. 
Don't apply it to your skin, use Deet for that.
Shepherd


On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 7:58 AM, CHUCK CHELIN wrote:

> 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
>
> http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye
> http://www.trailjournals.com/SteelEye09/
>
> 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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