[pct-l] Poison Oak

[msaenz at mve-architects.com (Mike Saenz)]

Squaw bush? Is that the name of that stuff?
Now THAT I see all over the place!
But it doesn't look like poison oak...maybe the leaves bear a slight
resemblance, but the whole structure of the bush is different.
It's a bush while poison oak grows in stalks.

Hey! No one's mentioned one of my favorite ways to avoid brushing up
against vegetation: trekking poles! As I cruise along, I "straight-arm"
with my pole rigidly vertical and use the pole to push the branches
aside as I go through.


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-----Original Message-----
From: pct-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net
[mailto:pct-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net] On Behalf Of Steve
Courtway
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 4:53 PM
To: Ginny & Jim Owen; pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Poison Oak

I believe squaw bush can also cause a rash ???...

where's christine "chrysanthamus" or whatever her trail name is the
botanist....?

s.c.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ginny & Jim Owen" <spiritbear2k@hotmail.com>
To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 2:11 PM
Subject: [pct-l] Poison Oak


> There are plants on the PCT which look a lot like poison oak but 
> aren't - i.e. Squaw bush 
> (http://ww1.clunet.edu/wf/des/flowers/fwr-535.htm).  Some people think

> they are immune but it is just that they have been in squaw bush or
one of its cousins instead.
>
> I am somewhat allergic to poison ivy but do not seem to be allergic to

> poison oak.  Jim is drastically allergic to poison ivy, but had no
reaction
> to anything on the pct.
>
> On the other hand, in northern California I sometimes had minor rashes

> on
my
> legs from heat, bugs, etc. which could have been partly poison oak - 
> they just weren't nearly as bad as my poison ivy rashes (e.g. not
painful).
> Ginny
>
>
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