When I bought my house there was a patch of poison ivy on the side that took me years to fully get rid of. I don't see much of it in Q at all. I had a bad case in high school once. It was kinda worth it.

Ticks are most problematic in the W or SW in Spring. I just tuck my pants into my socks after the first tickle. That's the thing about ticks. They just keep crawling up up up, tickling all the way until they can't anymore and I've never just picked up one tick. Where there's one there is usually more.


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"checking for ticks should be an important part of everyone's bedtime ritual in canoe country.

That's what I always told girlfriends and my wife. ;)

As far as PMs go, they are for personal messages -as in stuff the group doesn't want or need to hear. Most people, including MT at times, use it rather effectively when they want to. I'll trade quality information for repetitious volume any day:
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YMMV.
There's a dozen more that come up in a search. Hey, they are probably great pants! I got no clue. Permethrin still seems like overkill to me too but hey, whatever works for folks. I don't even bring shorts anymore. I wear the same pants night and day the whole trip. Fashion faux pas - I know. I had to wash them this year. S tube of soap blew up in a pocket and I couldn't stand the smell.