Monday, May 25, 2009

Ryan's (belated) "Ugly"

Oddly, one of the major hazards of rock climbing in Minnesota is not gravity, but the Wood Tick (Dermacentor variabilis ) also known as the "American Dog Tick", or "Those Nasty Little Bastards That Make Me Consider Bathing In Coleman Fuel While Playing With Sparklers." Overall we found more than 50 of these things.

So far as we know, none of them got a mouthful of human. A few got a mouthful of Sam, but he (despite his protestation otherwise) is not a human. He is canine, and was wearing Frontline. Frontline makes ticks get dead. I want to wear Frontline.

/rl

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