[pct-l] Fwd: TICK ALERT

[Jason Moores]

Shroomer,

You should tell the list about the tick freakout at Moreno last year.

Jackass



On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Scott Williams <baidarker at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Gourmet,
>
> I've seen lots of ticks in my day, but nothing like that Sheep Fire area,
> and in Oct!  Go figure.  They were lined up on the twigs sometimes 5 deep.
>  It really was creepy, and the worst part of it was, I was all alone, and
> without a small mirror to check out the tight spots I couldn't see.  I was
> sure every itch was a damn tick!  And I'm not very tick phobic.  Nowhere
> else on the entire trail even came close.  Now that I think of it, the only
> time I've seen ticks approaching these numbers was the year after the Santa
> Barbara fire in the mid '60's, backpacking on the Manzana as a teenager.
>  You know the area Diane.  They were never that bad again in subsequent
> years.  Maybe they go crazy in recently burned areas.  I don't know, but
> that was in spring, the usual season.
>
> Shroomer
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