[pct-l] Mosquitos

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I don't think you'll find heavy metals in coal fire plants emmissions.  
It a a fossil fuel, mostly carbon, and carbon is not a heavy metal.
These heavy metal thngs are like lead, chromium, mercury, copper, etc.
But I agree all that deet, soap, sunscreen, lip blam, etc. will contaminate the high apline lakes.  

--Dennis--


-----Original Message-----
From: be hope <bh.csuchico at gmail.com>
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Sent: Sat, Mar 30, 2013 4:52 pm
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Mosquitos


Ounces of Deet carried/used from Campo to Manning Park:  zero.  I did carry
two ounces of the eucalyptus-lemon spray; used one ounce; in the future
will carry no bug spray.   Gloves, headnet, long pants (with the zip-offs),
and gloves works for me.

Thinking about Ernie’s reminder in a recent post to ”Leave nothing but shoe
prints”, one time I observed lake water where a hiker just emerged from a
bath and detected what appeared to be a newly formed chemical sheen on the
water.  A chemical concoction of deet / sun screen / Gold Bond /
eucalyptus-lemon / permethrin?  Given that many alpine lakes, including the
ones in the Sierra, have some degree of heavy metal contamination from
global emissions from coal fired plants, I wonder about the long term
hiker/societal impacts from chemicals & heavy metals on those lakes:  more
than “shoe prints?”

be hope


Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:04:20 -0700
From: Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes <diane at santabarbarahikes.com>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Mosquitos
To: pct-l at backcountry.net

>. . . . . . . mosquitos
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