[pct-l] Trail Angel

[randy_forsland@xxxxxxxxxxx (Randy Forsland)]

Spring is prime tick season....

Most of them have been eaten by lizards/birds/thruhikers by the
summertime...

I hike the Bay Area hills weekly during the spring and can see them
clustered at the tops of the tall weeds that overhang the trails...but by
July...they have all but disappeared....


----- Original Message -----
From: "Marion Davison" <mardav@charter.net>
To: <Lonetrail@aol.com>; "PCT List" <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Trail Angel


> Oh yes, the ticks.  We hiked from Wrightwood to Soledad last March and our
dog
> got loaded down with ticks.  I was picking them off her for ten days
after.  But
> we did twelve days with her last summer in Desolation wilderness and she
didn't
> pick up a single one.  Weird.
> One day about ten years ago I was hiking the PCT above Deep Creek near
Hook
> creek trailhead.  I walked by a cut stump next to the trail and movement
caught
> my eye.  I looked close and saw a tiny tick standing on four legs on top
of the
> stump, waving the rest of his legs in the air, hoping to latch on to one
of us.
> Marion Davison  "llamalady"
>