[pct-l] Supplex long pants and shirt

[verber at gmail.com (Mark Verber)]

> I wear the supplex long pants and long sleeve shirt (Railriders) for hiking.
> I am off into the Sawtooths (Idaho) mountains for the weekend. Has anyone
> had any experience wearing this type of clothing in Mosquito country.  Or,
> does it all need to be treated with Perithiam (sp).  Somewhere I think I
> remember someone saying that the mossie do not bite through Supplex.

My experience is that they aren't able to bite through most weights of
supplex.  I typically wear a RR Eco-Mesh zip and having had problems
with mosquitos biting through.  What happened this weekend.  Did the
clothing provide the needed protection or did the bug repellent need
to come out?

--mark