Click if you hate ticks

[mtnbkr]

Used it on my clothes both times I went to So. Africa. In the ten days I found one tick curled up in the outside seam of my pants, obviously miserable. Everyone else in camp who wore untreated clothes had multiple tick encounters.

The first time I used it, I went hiking in a place known to be a tick mecca. I found several dead ones in the laces of my boots and in the cuffs of my pants. I've been a convert ever since.

And when I say permethrin all the things, I mean it. My clothes, hat, hammock, backpack, etc. I want to leave a trail of dead ticks in my wake when I go hiking or camping.

Chris

[blues]

Always on the key chain:

[LittleLebowski]

Pepperidge Farm remembers the military issue bug repellent that literally melted watches

[MasterBlaster]

Ticks haven’t pissed me off as much as chiggers have.

Seriously...chigger bites itch like a mofo for days and permanently destroy flesh. I'll take the tick bite any day.

[blues]

Pepperidge Farm remembers the military issue bug repellent that literally melted watches

And SAK scales.

[JRB]

Having been born and raised in a high altitude desert, I didn't take the threat of ticks seriously when I was first exposed.

After around 9 or 10 of those bullseye rashes reached 4-6in diameters and I was feeling like feverish hammered shit, I got dragged to urgent care where I got a round of some seriously heavy antibiotics - and I became a believer in avoiding ticks.

I'm very lucky that I got dragged into urgent care when I did, as I haven't had any long term ramifications.

[Duces Tecum]

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[mtnbkr]

Pepperidge Farm remembers the military issue bug repellent that literally melted watches

And SAK scales.

That is DEET and another reason why I don't use the stuff. I screwed up the scales on a Boy Scout Knife right after buying it at the Scout Camp commissary one year.

Chris

[Shoresy]

That is DEET and another reason why I don't use the stuff. I screwed up the scales on a Boy Scout Knife right after buying it at the Scout Camp commissary one year.

Chris

We all swore it off when a fellow scout had the body of his flashlight deform (effectively melted) to fit his hand one night at camp.

[Clusterfrack]

I like Picaradin based insect repellent:

https://amazon.com/dp/B07Z465FW2