This kind of stuff right here is where you’re most likely to pick up tick mites when moving through the woods. Grasses are the worst. I avoid them at all cost. In fact, if I was hiking through here, I’d walk up into the woods on the left and avoid those grass weeds altogether.
Tick mites, as we call ‘em around here, are teeny tiny little ticks that are about the size of the tip of a pin, so small they look like little dots. They will absolutely cover your feet and legs by the hundreds, or even thousands. They bite and cling on - which you will not even feel until later when you get into camp and start itching. Even after scraping them off your feet, the bites will drive a man (or woman) absolutely mad for a good week after.
Hoping to have a show about cots uploaded before the weekend.
I love cots. It’s a shame most of them can’t make the trip into genuine wilderness, because they provide my favorite sleeping experience. But even the really “light” and compact ones ain’t light enough or compact enough to carry 30 miles up and down mountains when there are other, more-important things that have to be included in a pack.
Still, I love them, and I’m looking forward to showing several different types off. One in particular makes my favorites list.
Also, I was competing with the locusts (cicadas). Daggaum, one in particular was trying to drown me out tonight. Here’s a little taste to hold y’all over.
