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Allison
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Allison
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 Sun Jun 16, 2002 10:24 pm |
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Are there ticks on the west side of the state? If so, where? 
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Backpacker Joe
Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001
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Location: Cle Elum |
Not that I've heard of AL. Been hiking around here (Alpine lakes, Glacier Peak, Henry M. Jackson, North Cascades NP) sice I was 13 or so, (25 years) and havent ever gotten TICKET!
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Mike Collins
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Joined: 18 Dec 2001
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I have only picked one tick off of me and it was technically in the east side of the crest but really west for weather. On a descent from HiBox I went through a lot of slide alder and found one lonely tick on my body afterwards.
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Newt
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Joined: 21 Dec 2001
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Location: Down the road and around the corner |
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Newt
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Mon Jun 17, 2002 6:36 am |
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Ran into a lot of them while working up on Chuckanut Drive. As for on the PNT or other trails in that area I've never seen any. But they were on the road.
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Timber Cruiser
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Joined: 17 Dec 2001
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Location: Cosi |
Ticks are rare on the west-side at higher elevations, but have run into them along the SKY around Index and Elbe Hills/Nisqually area. The San Juans are bad too. 
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MC
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Mon Jun 17, 2002 7:51 am |
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 We have ran into ticks on the east side of Ross Lake. For some reason they seem to like islands maybe someone knows why. I also have seen them on the Spruce Railroad trail near Lake Crescent in the Olympics. I have heard that they are present in the rain shaddow areas such as obstruction Point and deer park, but have not experienced them there. As a kid iremeber cats and doges getting them around in Kitsap County.
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Roxann
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Joined: 25 Feb 2002
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Roxann
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Mon Jun 17, 2002 6:30 pm |
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Yes there are ticks in the lower elevations. My dog picked up two hiking around Deception Pass a couple of months ago. :angry:
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McPilchuck
Wild Bagger
Joined: 17 Dec 2001
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Location: near Snohomish, Wa. |
Ticks, oh crap don't get me started...I did Army Boot Camp during the Nam years in about the most "God Awful" place one could imagine...the freakin' Missouri Ozarks, the entire battalion had to pick them off each others back every night in a line up at shower time. Had 23 of the little bastards imbeded in me after one night of training, the most I ever got in one outing. Ticks-I hate the things!!! As far as western Wa. goes, only seen a few in my 50 years in this neck of the woods...but then I did see a few come into the T-Bird Bar in Ballard come to think of it...drunk ticks, or was that drunk chicks...grin.
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McPilchuck
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Joined: 17 Dec 2001
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Location: near Snohomish, Wa. |
You mean Fort Misery Lost in the Woods! Yep, Tick City USA.
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Dean
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Joined: 02 Mar 2002
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Dean
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Mon Jun 17, 2002 9:50 pm |
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or Fort Lost in the Woods or Little Korea....why would you live there?
I guess the locals didn't know any better or was it the tattoo parlors in Waynesville
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McPilchuck
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Joined: 17 Dec 2001
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Location: near Snohomish, Wa. |
Right On! Or was that Four Corners. Speaking of tatoos, the guy had a sign on his door said, "Gone Fishin'" So. I didn't get one along the rest of the drunken lot after graduation. We did however revisit the local bar again either lookin' for more chicks or ticks, don't remember now?
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McPilchuck
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Joined: 17 Dec 2001
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Location: near Snohomish, Wa. |
Sweet memories eh?
I'd rather forget them now, but atleast it's nice to know somebody else knows what I am talking about, and then there were the chiggers and snakes, but that's another story. We are all truly blessed to live here in Washington, especially on the west side as far as bugs and snakes go, not putting down the east side here either. as far as I am concerned, Washington has them all beat for beauty...
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Sore Feet
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Joined: 16 Dec 2001
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Location: Out There, Somewhere |
I picked one off of me on Saturday, though I was in Oregon, but I was also still on the west side of the mountains (near the Umpqua River). Cheeky little sucker...though it could sneak by, but it met the vicious wrath of my finger nail. 
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