RE: Re: bug free cowboy camping

"Jerry Goller" <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Apr 2013 06:03:02 -0700
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I assume the clothes have been allowed to dry completely before wearing them. Since permethrin has no effect on mammals, what happens if the “excess” isn’t washed off?

 

Jerry

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Marco
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 6:30 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [BackpackingLight] Re: bug free cowboy camping

 

  

Hi Coosa,

Be careful. You should wash any excess permethrin off any cloths that are in contact with your skin. It does absorb, slowly, like anything else, through the skin. Ground cloths are iffy. If you use tyvec, I am not sure. It may not stay on some forms of plastics, like tyvec. It WILL stick to nylon. But, not treated silnylon. It will wash off quickly. Three or four times getting wet.

My thoughts only . . .

                                jdm 

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Coosa
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 8:28 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [BackpackingLight] Re: bug free cowboy camping

 







I plan to use my Tyvek ground cloth to lay my clothing on when I spray with Permethrin.  

 

Went for a 4 hour hike in a local Battlefield Park yesterday "pre-Permethrin" & found a tick on my leg afterwards.

 

TODAY I am spraying everything & I have a spray can I'm planning to put in a Mail Drop to a town where I plan a Zero. Hope it doesn't rain that day! 

 

Coosa







On Apr 10, 2013, at 6:35 AM, Mike Tamada <[email protected]> wrote:

  

>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