{"id":106,"date":"2024-06-12T14:05:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T14:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/?p=106"},"modified":"2024-06-12T14:05:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T14:05:12","slug":"planning-for-mosquitos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/uncategorized\/planning-for-mosquitos\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning for mosquitos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We\u2019re only two days away from our trip! Everyone keeps asking about precautions for the Alaskan wildlife. Yes, we\u2019ll carry bear spray and we\u2019ll fastidiously keep our food in bear proof containers. But our biggest concern: epic swarms of mosquitos!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve got head nets (which we hope not to need very often!), we\u2019ve got a thermacell device that should create a magical wall of safety around our campsite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can tell the thermacell is gonna work because blue arrows and honeycomb patterns don\u2019t lie!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ll also have bug spray. But hopefully the most effective thing we\u2019ve done is sent our clothing to Insect Shield<\/strong> for them to treat our clothes with permethrin in the same process they use in clothing you can buy at outdoor stores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can tell they really did it because they imprinted all their info on each item. Well, we certainly HOPE they did it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And they added new tags in the garments, right next to the annoying tags I had already cut out. oh well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hopefully the mosquitos won\u2019t bother trying to bother us too much. We\u2019ll soon find out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re only two days away from our trip! Everyone keeps asking about precautions for the Alaskan wildlife. Yes, we\u2019ll carry bear spray and we\u2019ll fastidiously keep our food in bear proof containers. But our biggest concern: epic swarms of mosquitos! We\u2019ve got head nets (which we hope not to need very often!), we\u2019ve got a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}