Re: bug free cowboy camping

>One way to avoid the creepy crawlers while cowboy camping would be too
>Use a Tyvek ground sheet that sticks out one foot beyond your sleeping pad
and soak it in permathrin.
>That will keep centipedes and ants at bay and will even keep most
mosquitoes from coming near.


Fascinating idea, I recently got a bottle of permethrin and was going to
use it to treat a shirt and pants; I hadn't ever thought of treating the
groundsheet.  Is there a way to tell if the treatment has worn off, or do
you automatically re-treat say once a year?


--MKT