[pct-l] Mosquitos

[Dan Jacobs]

Please be super careful with how you might dispose of any permethrin
products. They are toxic to many animals.

I'm not anti-permethrin, just pro-cautious.

Dan Jacobs
Washougal
On Mar 29, 2013 8:43 AM, <aslive at charter.net> wrote:

> 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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