[pct-l] Hobo Attack

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good evening, Dan,



Last summer after I got off the trail I was bitten by what I believe was a
spider when I was under my house’s crawlspace routing a com-sat cable.  It
probably fell – or crawled – down the sleeve of my coveralls and nailed me
when moved and put him in a pinch.



My elbow began to swell to about twice normal size and it ached
considerably.  It did not display the typical “target-wound” circle of a
brown recluse, and the recluse isn’t supposed to be found in the Pacific NW
anyway.  The doctor said the bite was most probably from a hobo spider
(*Tegenaria
agrestis*) which is troublesome but not as dangerous as a recluse.  Anyway,
the darn elbow was sore till Christmas.



Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

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