One thing you can do in tick prone areas, if you are wearing the clothes for it, is to avoid walking on the "easy" deer trails and instead crashing straight thr

One thing you can do in tick prone areas, if you are wearing the clothes for it, is to avoid walking on the "easy" deer trails and instead crashing straight through big bushes and brush to get through and otherwise giving a real wide birth from the edges of wood and brush lines. Ticks climb up plants right to the tips of branches and leaves to overlook cleared openings and trails to find prey. But there will be very few ticks in the middle of dense brush and bushes and they aren't sitting there ready to pounce. If you see a wall of inconvenient brush but a clear animal trail that breaks through at one point or where they skirt around the edge to get to a break, it is natural to want to follow it yourself. But that opening is right where ticks hang out to best find prey. And the same goes for the overall trails where there is clear ground beneath overhanging branches Obviously don't do this in public faced nature recreation areas that people come to enjoy the views and wreck it all up. But on private lands or deep in the woods where 20 other people aren't going to try to follow your path, just full send it and go through a less convenient spot.