[ORRando] 1. Re: SxSW 200 (mike)

[Michael Ford]

I've found that tucking a sheet of Bounce (that fabric softener) into my 
jersey pocket , as well as rubbing it lightly on my exposed skin, seems to 
keep mosquitos away effectively. Might work for flies, too.

Mike
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> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:17:25 -0700
> From: keith <thorlak at coho.net>
> Subject: Re: [ORRando] SxSW 200
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> I was thinking of making this my first brevet but am a little
> intimidated buy the elevation more so that the distance. My family
> camped at North Fork in the Pinchot Forest a few years back in July and
> the flies were ferocious. I seem to remember skin so soft by Avon
> working pretty good.
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> Susan France wrote:
>> Yes, this is a really great route. Unfortunately, 8000` was just a wee 
>> bit beyond my ability so I was an unofficial finisher... but still it was 
>> a great route.
>> I learned that Lanaseptic makes a great insect replellent in a pinch. 
>> Biting flys were after me on the long slow climbs and I had nothing that 
>> was made to "repel insects". I figured if I could keep them away, I would 
>> create a fly paper of sorts and trap them. I didn't trap flys but they 
>> didn't seem to like landing on the stuff smeared all over my exposed 
>> parts.
>> Susan.
>> PS. Flys can bit though shorts and in like catching a ride in the rear 
>> (literally).
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> From: Michael <michael at jamhome.us>
>>> Sent: Jun 26, 2009 11:18 AM
>>> To: orrando at orrandonneurs.org
>>> Subject: [ORRando] SxSW 200
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>>>
>>> I see that, so far, only four people have signed on for this brevet.
>>>
>>> Say it isn't so.
>>>
>>> Don't be deterred by the Kramer reputation for mountain goat routing. 
>>> True,
>>> there is close to 8,000 feet of climbing in this 200K.  But they're nice
>>> climbs with fully two thirds of them being in national forests - one of 
>>> them
>>> cresting as it crosses the Pacific Crest Trail.
>>>
>>> I rode the original version of this brevet in 2006.  It stands out as 
>>> one of
>>> the most enjoyable brevets of my life.  Well, that would exclude the 
>>> crash
>>> after I had a moment of irrational exuberance, threw both my arms into 
>>> the air
>>> in a victory V and lost control of the bike.  I would probably also 
>>> exclude
>>> the 7% grade that I walked several sections of and at the conclusion 
>>> told the
>>> control worker to "just shoot me now."  It would also probably exclude a
>>> couple of other moments that I've pushed out of memory.  But you get the 
>>> idea.
>>> It's a great ride.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>>     Michael Rasmussen
>>>   http://www.jamhome.us/
>>> Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity
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