PARASITIC BARRIER

Harsh environmental conditions such as driving rain, heat, or cold can all sap our strength when working in the outdoors, but few things have the ability to challenge our focus and health quite like stinging and biting insects. Trying to maintain a pace count while dead reckoning a course through the woods and simultaneously slapping your ears every few seconds to ward off mosquitos is trying at best, and at worst, carries the risk of vector-borne illness transmission.

When you finally reach your destination, throw your pack down, and start to strip off some sweaty clothing only to find ticks embedded in your skin, that also has a way of immediately reducing the fun factor. Just ask survivalist Megan Hine, who we interviewed