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[cohp] Digest Number 5170
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County High Pointing in all 50 states
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Digest #5170
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Re: Congrats, Josh! by "John Wiley" Dasaan
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Re: Ticks by "xander Carlson" xandathor

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Re: Congrats, Josh!
Fri Oct 9, 2015 6:44 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"John Wiley" Dasaan
Congrats! Indiana takes some dedication. Big accomplishment!

I'm originally from Indiana, and I pick away at some of the counties
whenever I am back visiting family. Slow going on that one, but it's always
nice to get out and explore the home turf. I think Indiana is underrated,
not because it's amazing, but because people don't think it's interesting
at all. It definitely can be surprising, if you explore it at all.

Cheers,
John Wiley
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Re: Ticks
Fri Oct 9, 2015 11:31 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"xander Carlson" xandathor
I'm beginning to think something in my chemical makeup makes me distasteful to those things. Poison ivy and oak do not affect me, and typically mosquitos stay clear of me (unless i'm in the mountains and there are swarms, they are nonstop then). I remember Dick Ellsworth say he pulled off 100s of ticks while doing the Wisconsin county highpoints, and I haven't had a one yet (knock on wood). The last time I picked up a tick was in the Badlands National Park in 1998. Despite this I am extremely paranoid of them and constantly do tick checks whenever I leave the brush due to fears of lyme disease. I probably would do just as you did and go to the doctor even though my wife would say I'd be overreacting.

And dang man, you make me feel lazy with your trip reports. I always try to commit important details to paper or memory but never get around to making reports like I should. Thanks for all of the info for the group.

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On Fri, 10/9/15, jlhcpa@yahoo.com [cohp] <cohp@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

One additional note of interest - On Saturday
morning at the Konvention pancake breakfast, I discovered a
tick that was attached to the back of my left thigh.  I
showed it to some others who sat with me, and they agreed
this tick was engorged and had probably been there for hours
- probably since yesterday's outings.  Rather than
pulling the tick off, they encouraged me to seek medical
attention.  So I left the pancake breakfast and drove to
the Sibley local hospital.  There, I was directed to a
doctor's medical clinic rather than being treated at the
hospital.  The doctor who saw me was, coincidentally, in
Iowa on a short term assignment from Warsaw, Indiana, a
community about 40 miles from my residence.  The doctor
pulled the tick off with tweezers and wrote me a
precautionary prescription (the tick was not infected) for
antibiotics which I proceeded to take twice a day for the
next three weeks.  The time spent chasing the doctor and
the prescription caused me to miss the formal activities at
the HP.  I also missed an impromptu trip to nearby Lyon
County made by a group of highpointers.  However, I was
fortunate to obtain trip notes from another HP'er who
had made the trip the previous day, so I set off on my own
and bagged Lyon County not long after the group.

John Hasch



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