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thebravecowboy
Social climber
Colorado Plateau
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Apr 29, 2012 - 02:53am PT
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so this one time, i was crew-leading a group of ten kids (16-25) way out in the boonies, car-camping and doing conservation work (fire fuels reduction mostly). ticks were BAD in that area, that year. one pair of kids came back out of the stream-bottom after a hike in the high grass, and pulled at least 40 hungry ticks off.
my buddy, one of the kids back from the hike, became convinced that he had a tick on his as-h0le. he asks us all if anyone will exam between his cheeks to see if a tick has latched onto his 0-ring. no one will. he attempts to examine his ass via the rearview mirror of the truck. doesn't work.
meanwhile, the kids on the crew are belly-ached from laughing.
the situation is resolved when my friend uses the camera on another kid's cellphone to examine his as-h0le. no tick.
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bob
climber
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Apr 29, 2012 - 09:23am PT
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Tick inspired route names? I named a route last summer Lyme Line because it was a climb I thought I may never be able to do due to the very fact that I became all phuked up with chronic Lyme. Sh#t was starting to really mess with me in very bad ways. Pain, loss of memory, pain, demetia-like eisodes, vision issues, balance issues, pain, and some more stuff. Good schit for sure!!!!!
Anyhow, its not the BIG ticks that I would be worried about. It's ticks we can't see that scare the crap out of me. The larval stages of the ticks we can barely see as adults as is.
There is an herbal combo that can be taken during tick seasons to diminish chances of contracting this insidious disease, but there are lots and lots of things people say one can do to diminish risks for this so folks have to pick and choose through all the info. lymeaid.net is one of many places a person could look.
PHUK ticks.
How about when you shoot a deer and go deal with it. All the while the ticks are just leaping onto you. Just have to take it for a while and then go be thorough!!!!!!!!
My buddy once put a deer skin submerged in a creek for a few days to see if he could get some of those things off. Nope. When he pulled it out it still had ticks on it........alive. I sh#t you not.
I bet it would have been better just to leave it out so they would detach and go find some real blood. Hunters? Any words on this?
Bob Jensen
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Apr 29, 2012 - 11:04am PT
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Damn Ron A. Nightmare material there. Blargh.
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Apr 29, 2012 - 11:45am PT
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Fattrad U mean like "W" now there is a lib big spender.
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Apr 29, 2012 - 03:48pm PT
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"All the while the ticks are just leaping onto you.'
Umm, ticks don't leap. They can't. Check out those tiny little legs.
They fall on to you when you brush up against whatever they're hanging out on.
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bob
climber
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Apr 29, 2012 - 03:51pm PT
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Yikes on the water.
Okay, fair enough. Maybe they don't leap. I have no idea, but they were sure all over me in seconds after starting to deal with that deer.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Apr 29, 2012 - 04:46pm PT
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I seriously cannot even look at them. Exoskeletons and crunchy exteriors totally gross me out. *shivers*
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bob
climber
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Apr 29, 2012 - 05:31pm PT
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Locker, maybe you could patent your scent as a groovy alternative to gnarly schit. Could keep you in the millions til yer dead!
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Apr 29, 2012 - 08:40pm PT
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Ticks?
Another reason not to visit Idaho!
Last 4th of July. Fairly good tick day. Despite being sprayed with DEET, 3 of us picked up 5 ticks in an hour hike.
Ron: Tick-rights laws are the next legal frontier.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Apr 29, 2012 - 11:05pm PT
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hey there captian... skully....
say, when i lived in south texas... i learned:
many areas are CRAWLING with them... (well, along with roaches, too)....
rarely saw them in calif, on our pets, though, but our pets were not near wooded areas...
however, south texas, with its many fields and such, ther are all over some areas of many little towns...
a gal had to get a place fumigated, that she moved into:
they were appearing ALL over the walls :O from the outer brick roof, :O
and--sadly, some seasons, they'd be all over the dirt, and latch onto the dogs...
had manny 'garapata quarenteen' type zones...
say:
there is a city in calif, right? if i remember right?
named:
garapata??
(unless, i am mixing this up with a small south texas town)
(haha, i KNOW there is a town named 'gonzalez' in calif) :)
(course, do NOT know what it is like)...
they are here in mich, too... yuck, saw some INSIDE a tree bark, ON a neat tree (live tree) during a walk... canceled all walks there, that season, :(
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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I put the sh!t on and smell better than Nicole Kidman on a cool night... Hahahahahaaaaaah! Maybe better.
It really does work. And you're welcome.
John Rosholt and I put up a hard OW that we latter called Tick Fever as we both got it from the approach. A good route but a miserable experience.
Here is a story for you tick haters.
A TICK-LISH SITUATION.
There we were the usual gang of dirtbaggers sitting around a picknick table in the North Rim campground. It was a rainy rest day so the usual thrumming sense of doom that the Gunnison river elicits wasn't even vaguely apparent. We had no place to go and no better place to be. In our altered states fueled by lazy overindulgence we were passing the rim time by discussing and debating our preferred methods of dispatching ticks. Of course all methods had to be tested with that days crop. The methods employed were many and all were diabolical. We decided to subcatogorize above rim, below rim and wall time methods of execution. My personal rim time favorite was a hot cast iron skillet. Like popcorn but too small to eat. As a huge Tolkien fan I always muse about poor ol Bilbo having to listen to the trolls debate the best way to eat dwarves and burrahobbit whenever I reminisce about the great tick debate and decimation of 87.
We were huge, grim and malicious creatures lording over a make shift torture chamber for ticks. Fortunately Gandalf and the Sun never arrived and we gleefully carried on with our tick-lish experimentation till all the fodder was gone. Ah ah ah! Just don't ask about my wall time favorite.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Umm, ticks don't leap. They can't. Check out those tiny little legs.
I have no idea whether they can, but maybe you can explain how fleas leap tall buildings in a single bound with their tiny little legs?
I got lyme at 17yo. The south is rampant with 'em. Normal procedure during the warm part of hunting season was to strip down at the truck, get out the pocket knife and scrape em off, then take a little cup of bleach into the shower, those seed ticks are hard to see.
We used a spray on product called Permanone, which was very effective. Don't remember the active ingredient but I'm sure it was nasty stuff.
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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I got lyme at 17yo. The south is rampant with 'em. Normal procedure during the warm part of hunting season was to strip down at the truck, get out the pocket knife and scrape em off, then take a little cup of bleach into the shower, those seed ticks are hard to see.
We used a spray on product called Permanone, which was very effective. Don't remember the active ingredient but I'm sure it was nasty stuff.
No offense ElCap butt if Permanone was so effective why were you shaving with knives and showering with Aqua Clorox? Oh and bummer about the Lyme's disease.
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pvalchev
Social climber
Mountain View, CA / Calgary, AB
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Found a tick on my arm after descending from Arrowhead in Yosemite on Sunday - that slightly overgrown approach trail feels like prime tick habitat. I had just read this thread last week and was meticulous checking at the car - glad I found the little bugger in time before he attached. My friend got a tick on him when we did South by Southwest last year, too (it attached but he ripped it off). On the drive home I kept thinking every itch was a tick... bastards.
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jstan
climber
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Up thread people have posted reports of very high tick populations in the Mojave also. It has been unusually dry and warm for the last year. Global warming may bring with it substantially higher tick populations.
Potentially, rock climbing could become hazardous.
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justin01
Trad climber
sacramento
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we live on a bit of land, and the dog goes for a run on single track every morning. My house is infested. I pulled off 5 or 6 ticks off myself in my cube after lunch. My dog had at least a dozen on him today, and I had two I just pulled off my laptop. Freaking ridiculous. I was on antibiotics 6 months ago for a pair of embedded ticks. My shoulder swelled up huge. Thank God, CA doesn't have lymes like the east, or I would be screwed.
Last year was bad too, but this year is far worse.
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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"Thank God, CA doesn't have lymes like the east, or I would be screwed."
Lyme's has been present in Cali for years...many, many diagnosed cases....
Good news is that it's the Common Deer Tick (ixodes dammini) that is the carrier, and tends to be most infective in the nymph stage of its lifecycle. Even better, if it latches on and you discover it relatively quickly (a few hours at most), the chances of the spirochete infecting you are virtually nil.
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