[pct-l] Sun Protection - bug juice

[m.karon@attbi.com (Marshall Karon)]

I also dislike Deet. I have tried Citronella. I like mosquitos even less. It
was Deet every 10 minutes in Yosemite - and even then it was bad. Like, we
put up our tent for lunch. I don't think the non-Deet products will be very
effective when you reach those bugs. Hopefully, you will only have them a
few day - until Dorothy Lakes, if it is like it was in 2000. My wife made a
light weight nylon wind suit that Jardine describes - loved it. The bugs
didn't bite through and she didn't get to hot. I used the juice and
survived - barely.


Marshall Karon
Portland, OR
m.karon@attbi.com
(503) 232-5271
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edmond Meinfelder" <pct@meinfelder.com>
To: "Nina Baxley" <mizwaterfall@yahoo.com>; <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Sun Protection


> At 08:18 PM 3/22/2002 -0800, Nina Baxley wrote:
> >Umbrella? Long sleeves and long pants? Great big hats?
> >What has worked most effectively for y'all?
>
> On the JMT, I wore long (convertible) pants and a long-sleeved shirt (both
> polyester) by Columbia with a ball cap having a foreign legion-esque flap
> (granite, water and snow can reflect the sun's rays). I am fair skinned,
> blue eyed, do not tan well and had no problems.
>
> Though I took sunscreen lotion, I opted to not use it. The horse dung from
> the pack trains was all over the trail and, I imagine, in the trail dust.
> Sunscreen leaves my skin tacky, making me a trail dust magnet, so passing
> on the sunscreen wasn't difficult.
>
> Last June I hiked Joshua Tree and, with my new respect for the Mojave sun,
> I'll be taking a sun umbrella this time out.
>
> I'm also going to try the non-DEET bug repellents (citronella). I'm not
> usually ravaged by bugs, but I don't like using DEET. Anyone try these?
>
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