we went on a hike a week ago Saturday. Inspected my clothes coming back but

May 9, 2022
8:06:40am

Blue Ridge All-American

didn't put them in the dryer like I usually do. Put on sweats that Sunday after church and later in the day felt something crawling up my leg. It was a tick that must have transferred from my jeans the day before.

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Blue Ridge

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Ticks are the stuff of nightmares. Imagine collecting these on your ankles doing

Windward_Coug

5/9/22 8:00am

we went on a hike a week ago Saturday. Inspected my clothes coming back but

Blue Ridge

5/9/22 8:06am

You have to walk through brush to get even one. They're not crawling everywhere.

MarylandFan

5/9/22 8:27am

I’ve picked up plenty of ticks hiking through heavy brush in utah.

dryflycoug

5/9/22 8:35am

Came home with one embedded in my abdomen after my NV deer hunt last year.

Backcountry

5/9/22 8:42am

I got RMSF from a tick in Utah. It got pretty miserable for a while.

BlueTooth

5/9/22 8:38am

Every time I kill an animal the ticks flee by the dozens or hundreds as the

Backcountry

5/9/22 8:41am

I killed a deer about a decade ago that had about a thousand ticks on it.

dryflycoug

5/9/22 8:44am

I had Lyme disease as a teenager…it sucked.

WhirleyPop

5/10/22 12:24pm

You never can really get rid of it, right?

BlueTooth

5/10/22 4:49pm

I took antibiotics...it cleared right up. I think the issue is some people get i

WhirleyPop

5/10/22 4:56pm

Me to my wife, "I'd like to check you for ticks"

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