[pct-l] ticks and the Sheltowee

[Nicole E. Phillips]

Ticks are HORRIBLE on the east coast. I frequently walk the Pine Barrens of
NJ with my dog and even just last month I left with three ticks in my hair
and felt one crawling up my neck on the car ride home. They give me the
freak outs. This past weekend I also found five on my dog, in the pits of
her hind legs. One was halfway embedded and alive, while the others were
dead but still hanging on. I apply k9 advantage monthly, which until now
had worked to kill attached ticks before they could borrow. I am a little
worried about the one that managed to get halfway in. Regardless, they left
bumps where they started to latch on, I will just have to wait.  But man,
ticks are terrible out here, it's almost enough to keep me from going in
the woods out here.
On May 8, 2013 11:48 PM, "shon mcganty" <smcganty at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> I got got back from hiking the Sheltowee Trail ("Trace" as they call it).
> This was my first east coast hike, and ticks were everywhere.  I started
> counting the number of ticks I had to flick off me just to pass the time.
> In the worse mile I flicked off 21 ticks.  Never seen so many ticks.
>
> I had a system of walking and doing a tick check while walking.  The thing
> I learned was, when I look down for a quick tick check, is to learn where
> on your skin you have freckles, which do not flick off, no matter how hard
> you try.
>
> About 90-95% of the time I found the tick before it bit me, but several
> had dug in.  A couple got me at night, so were in me for many hours.  I
> pulled them off with tweezers, but was left with a dot-sized red mark that
> in a few days began to itch.  It is now 1 1/2 weeks later and the red mark
> and itch is still there, but diminishing.  I was going to ask if this is
> par for the coarse, but I just read Diane's post, who said she still had
> the red mark 2 1/2 wks later.
>
> If anyone wants to know about the Sheltowee Trace, feel free to pop my a
> questions.  It was an OK trail, good in places, lots and lots of road
> walking, made me realize just how great the PCT is.
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes <diane at santabarbarahikes.com>
> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 7:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] ticks
>
>
> That's really the best way. All the other ways require you to leave
> the creepy little bugger in your skin while you fiddle with him. Once
> I see one, I just want him out NOW. Get him out before I get the
> heebeejeebees so bad I have to ask someone to do it for me.
>
> I got a tick a couple weekends ago. One of those Western black legged
> ticks (Ixodes pacificus), the carriers for Lyme disease here in So
> Cal. I hope I didn't get Lyme disease. There wasn't a bulls-eye but
> two weeks and a half later there's still a red mark.
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