I got a tick in my own backyard.
There are deer in Maryland that live in the suburbs and become a nuisance.
We used to camp when we were young.
Now i’m just afraid of places without a flush toilet and shower.
Yeah my dog got a tick on him last year, I had to remove it with tweezers.
We have deer we live now - man I dont like ticks, the medication Frontline seems to help my dog from getting fleas and ticks - @katwomansz
Living in the woods you get used to them. But I don’t like them. I get several on me every year but very few actually attach.
I pull them off my animals all the time from spring to fall.
My method is to slide my fingertips over the tick body and push down into the skin with my nails, forcing the head up and yanking. Never left a head in. I’ve probably pulled hundreds of the things over the years.
I have on occasion used tweezers on the really tiny ‘seed ticks’ - too hard to get with fingernails, but the normal size ones i pull with fingers.
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I like glamping in some way these days. i know an amazing place where there is a tree tent and a kitchen tent and somewhere to make a fire, on it’s own on someone’s forested small holding .
don’t see another soul the whole time ur there.
it’s quite expensive, but it’s the next best thing to pitching a tent on illegal ground, find sleeping on the floor too uncomfortable otherwise, after only 24 hrs i go home if it’s on the floor!
not hardcore any more
I’ve gone camping 4 times in my life, but never with my family.
My dad didn’t believe in taking everything from inside and putting it outside for the night.
Once when I was 13, I went camping with a friend and her family in the Santa Cruiz mountains when the Hill-side strangler was running loose. We got lost off trail and heard noises in the bushes, got scared and ran like idiots until we found someone to show us the way back.
When my divorce was final, I found 9 tents in our shed…couldn’t recall using any of them…?
I love camping where I’m from there’s a river named Russian River and at the start of Salmon season it would be what’s called combat fishing because it was common for dudes to get into fights over fishing spots.
There were so many people that for something like a mile of the river is legal to fish and they are elbow to elbow trying to catch as many salmon and the biggest salmon they can get there’s always a $10000 derby for the biggest caught.
There’s a limit of 1king per season and 1silver a day the season is like 2 weeks and along the river there is a campground where you can camp for 2 days a season.
Everyone lines up on the side of the freeway waiting for a turn at the campground because that’s the primo spot.
You can park on the freeway and fish but it was more work.
Also if you had a camp spot by the river it’s easier to fish around the click until you caught your limit.
That’s what I liked you fish for hours go back to the spot maybe 3min away eat something then go fish some more catch a fish sleep a little then go fish some more it was festive because everyone was doing that.