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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
the crowd MUST BE MOCKED...Mocked I tell you.
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Apr 26, 2012 - 10:02pm PT
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LOL!!!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
the crowd MUST BE MOCKED...Mocked I tell you.
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Apr 26, 2012 - 10:02pm PT
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Paranoia is good.
Prevent the terrible Fromunda Tick!! Worst kind.
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feynman
Trad climber
chossberta
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Apr 26, 2012 - 10:04pm PT
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I got 15 on me last Sat. in Alberta. When the sheep aren't in the town, they bed down on the ledges we climb around. I always hate finding ticks crawling in the car 3 or 4 days after climbing. One had migrating over to my baby the day after climbing.
Some of the people I climb with take a drybag and seal their climbing clothes in it for the drive home. The really rich guys have a dry bag for their gear. They let it "air" out on the porch when they get home.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Apr 26, 2012 - 10:06pm PT
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They're even bad at the Monument this year.
They won't touch Tucker though
Wonder why?
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Dos XX
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Apr 26, 2012 - 10:17pm PT
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I spent maybe an hour at Stoney Point one evening last week, pulled a $%*^& tick off the back of my neck the next morning while sitting at my desk at work. My wife was pissed, threatened to curtail my Stoney privileges :-(
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 26, 2012 - 10:25pm PT
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bluering, you are the new 'Lois'.
GO AWAY.
Please.
Oh, for f*#k's sake. I post climbing related PSA's and I get the usual leg-humping.
F*#k off!
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apogee
climber
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Apr 26, 2012 - 10:50pm PT
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'leg-humping' would somehow infer that there is some level of adulation towards you.
Ummm........no.
Just go the feck AWAY.
Edit:
There is, however, some level of irony b/w your OP and your presence here at ST....
Dug in deep...won't let go....sucks really hard....knowwhutImeen?
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 26, 2012 - 10:52pm PT
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Just go the feck AWAY.
Explain why.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Apr 26, 2012 - 11:03pm PT
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**Poly = many
Ticks = bloodsucking parasites
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Apr 26, 2012 - 11:09pm PT
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Democrats have been sucking others blood for their own gain since Jackson bled the Cherokee dry.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 26, 2012 - 11:12pm PT
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DEET, locker. DEET sprayed from the knees down! Even on clothes.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Apr 26, 2012 - 11:13pm PT
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Mint, fresh mint, Lockerman. My Mom swears by it.
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bergbryce
Mountain climber
South Lake Tahoe, CA
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Apr 26, 2012 - 11:15pm PT
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we tried some stuff that was in a yellow can and I don't think the active ingredient was deet. ended up just staying out of the woods which was a bummer, but better than being covered in pinhead size ticks.
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apogee
climber
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Apr 26, 2012 - 11:15pm PT
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Why?
Because you are as tenacious, latched-on, unrelenting, single-minded as a tick.
That's why.
Edit: I know, I know...you consider these traits to be good things...
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jmes
climber
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Apr 26, 2012 - 11:17pm PT
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I guess the stuff that goes on your clothes and shoes is the best alternative when you are out for long periods. Though I don't know whether that would end up leaching out onto your skin.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Apr 26, 2012 - 11:18pm PT
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Tick Bomb;
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 26, 2012 - 11:20pm PT
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I spray skin and clothes knees down. Also shoes. They will embed into your laces and shoe-tongues, man! I swear.
Apogee, give it up. F*#k off!
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feynman
Trad climber
chossberta
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Apr 26, 2012 - 11:22pm PT
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Any tick inspired names? The Jethro Tull inspired "Thick as a Tick" route around here makes me smirk - or is that from the crunch I get when squishing the buggers while belaying.
I'd fail the wall climbing inspection for sure. I just can't flick them away. Another reason to carry a pin hammer. Much more satisfying than a rock or biner. Even earwigs die easier than ticks.
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apogee
climber
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Apr 26, 2012 - 11:24pm PT
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Not on your pathetic life, bluering.
Not until you and Lois are sucking down mojitos together on a veranda in Glen Gardner.
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Apr 26, 2012 - 11:32pm PT
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Locker the best repellent for ticks is an Avon product called "Skin So Soft".
No joke man, see if you can find some. It really works and isn't toxic to humans.
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