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Hot tip/How to thwart ticks
Duct tape will do the trick.
In the north woods, ticks are thick this year. Here's an ingenious idea from Border Route Trail founder Ed Solstad of Minneapolis, who credits a Panamanian tour guide:
"Wrap a strip of duct tape, sticky side out, around your cuffs to keep ticks from crawling up your legs and arms. I also wrapped duct tape around my collar as a last line of defense to try to keep them out of my hair. We tried this last year and it worked quite well. I had an impressive collection at the end of the day.'' For more, see Preventing Lyme disease.
Last updated on June 3, 2008