Caught something else at B.H.

Forgot to post the bonus catch besides the ling.

I saw it along the road and the path, tried to avoid it, but somehow picked it up anyway. I used to be pretty immune to the stuff, after a couple of bad cases, I think I can get it from airborn contact now...

Forgot to post the bonus catch besides the ling.

I saw it along the road and the path, tried to avoid it, but somehow picked it up anyway. I used to be pretty immune to the stuff, after a couple of bad cases, I think I can get it from airborn contact now...

Whew, consider yourself lucky - I did a live shot on Poison Ivy/Oak and it could be a heck of a lot worse!

Forgot to post the bonus catch besides the ling.

I saw it along the road and the path, tried to avoid it, but somehow picked it up anyway. I used to be pretty immune to the stuff, after a couple of bad cases, I think I can get it from airborn contact now...

Whew, consider yourself lucky - I did a live shot on Poison Ivy/Oak and it could be a heck of a lot worse!

Ouch! got pics? 

Yeah, this is just a tiny spot, but I thought I'd put out the warning. (Most people probably already know about it though...)

What started my immune-decline was a mt. bike crash from an off-camber hairpin into a PO bush. That one was ugly.

You popped your cherry!

Congratulations on your "rite of passage" at da bean... Been there, done that. Now I westuits and booty up before I walk the trail....

Rich

Man that gives me the willies.  I'm still getting over my latest bout with the stuff.  No joke, it probably covered 35-40% of my body and I'm on week 3.    Almost gone!

Michael

Yep, I've got it too. Flip flops at Bean-well, "ya gots ta pay ta play". I'm glad it's only on the top of my left foot is all.

I've had my own struggles with the evil OAK. Last place I lived I killed four trees of the stuff that had trunks 5" thick. Biggest vines I've ever seen. I had a wicked case every summer season for 3 years in a row, hands, face, it was awful.
In our place now I have it pretty much under control, but we still have to be diligent every spring to kill the sprigs off. My wife puts on a hazmat suit & farmchem gloves to pull it out by the roots. She's never gotten more than a tiny speck on her skin. I just look at the stuff & I get it on my eyeballs.
Talk about the potential for a bio-weapon. Geez, can you imagine spraying that oil as an aerosol? Probably against every rule of engagement there is. 

It is nasty stuff.. I've disc golfed De La Veaga for years, and that place is one huge Poison Oak Patch. Now, I seem to be pretty much immune to it..

Friend who lives up off the Summit pulled a huge amount out of the ground , piled it up, tossed some fuel on it, lit it, stood back and watched. Then the wind changed directions, and the smoke blasted him. Had PO in his eyes, mucus glands, everywhere in days. Hospital ER for shots of prednizone.....

Ugly, very ugly.....

Rich

I have a couple friends who arrived in camp after dark and inadvertantly threw some in the fire in their haste.

They were holed up at home for weeks with nads the size of grapefruits.

just a reminder that the oils will be present in the soil.  So if you help a mountain friend clear a small mudslide off the driveway, everywhere you got wet, you get a rash.  Amazing all the places the water gets

Dogs will bring it home too. Took an easy hike on a fire road with no foliage contact whatsoever but still got a breakout on the legs right at doggy level...

Dogs will bring it home too. Took an easy hike on a fire road with no foliage contact whatsoever but still got a breakout on the legs right at doggy level...

Yep. I had an art show once, and my dog gave poison oak to 4 people there, including me. One of the worst cases I've ever had, especially since I didn't know I'd gotten it all over my hands. I wear contact lenses so.............it was brutal.

 

  20yrs ago I would have broke out all over by just looking at that picture of that evil stuff!  Now, not so much. I'm still allergic to the stuff, (And I've eradicated it from my property) and occasionally I still get it, but it doesn't seem to bother me as much now.  Last time I really got it bad I was off to my doctors and got pill for it! itchies were gone in 2 days!

It seems the stories of people burning it are pretty common and usually the scariest.

I used to do an annual surf/camp trip up on the lost coast. We'd hike 9 miles along the beach from Shelter Cover (with surf boards and provisions for 4 days, mind you - in the sand...) to camp on the flats and surf. We'd leave SC based on the tides, because a couple of spots along there got pretty narrow. So we arrived in the dark one evening in the middle of a miserable rainstorm, and set up camp under some scrubby trees and passed out in the tents. The next morning we saw that we were in the middle of the most leafy patch of poison oak in the entire area.

We had several miserable people after that trip!

As for becoming immune, I thought that people became less immune over time from multiple exposures rather than more immune.

Oh well, small price to pay for the fun I had on that day!

As for becoming immune, I thought that people became less immune over time from multiple exposures rather than more immune.

That's what I've heard too but it looks like there is hope for me yet.

Michael