[pct-l] Ticks

[patti kulesz]

so ur hiking right now Dale? Cuz this year they are insane here! I'm still 
pulling ticks off my bed from my dog and I doing a day hike out here in SoCal 
last Frid evening. Everyday, I think I've got em all and there's another one, 
and they are all alive, even tho he's been treated and we both used deet on top 
of it  AHHH! 

And which 660 miles did u do on the PCT?

just sayin...
 
Sugar Moma  

 




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From: Dale Combs <comebackwalking at yahoo.com>
To: pct-l at backcountry.net
Sent: Tue, April 19, 2011 7:44:08 PM
Subject: [pct-l] Ticks

I've seen zero ticks in 660 miles of PCT.
Seen 2 ticks in 291 miles of AT. One tick removal, dead.
I've seen about 120 tick incidents in 405 miles at Henry Coe/Orestimba. One live 
tick removed.

Ticks feed three times in their life. If they have last feed on the ubiquitios 
Blue Fence Lizard,
(often seen doing pushups) then that clears the bacteria from the ticks.

When it's alive a steady pull makes the tick let go after about 20 seconds.
When it's dead, because the immediate instinctive reaction is to crush it with 
your fingernails,
you pull and the snout breaks off with the digits on the mandible still inside 
the wound.
Then you have to dig it out.

Don't save the tick. Lymes Disease is diagnosed based on the symptoms.

If the bite location doesn't turn into a bulls eye, the size of a dime, and you 
don't otherwise have symptoms.......the Doc is not going to do anything. 




“Fortunately (or
unfortunately, depending on your perspective) I have had a previous tick get to
my skin so I knew what it felt like -- not a sharp pain, just a slowly
increasing, nagging prick, as if someone held a pencil against your skin and
ever so slowly increased the pressure,” Bob Burd.
I'm not saying you should be paranoid. But, if you do see one, then start 
putting deet on your lower legs, tuck your pant legs into your socks.
Dale













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