Shorts (as In Short Pants Above The Knee)?

[+Cymbaline]

I'm sure this is markwelled somewhere, but my cursory search didn't find anything.

 

I don't normally cache during the summer months, and anything above 80 degrees is "getting pretty danged warm" to me - unless there's a lake or pool nearby. Unfortunately for me, I live in a suburb of Atlanta, GA - which means heat AND nasty humidity.

 

I like cold-weather caching, which means jeans. "Warm/Hot" weather caching to me means shorts - REI, Old Navy, Umbro whatever, but lack of material is a good thing in regards to heat. As such, I've been pulling ticks off me left and right recently - with or without bug spray.

 

I realize ticks are a necessary evil during summertime caching. What's been getting me lately is the abundance of barbed vines/weeds/etc that I've enountered. Granted, my legs aren't anything Betty Paige would own (no, i'm not that old, but man she had the gams!) due to multiple softball leagues, soccer leagues, hiking, whatever. They ain't pretty, but I don't like bleeding.

 

The problem I have is that I can't get myself to wear long pants even while I'm getting torn up - too frickin' hot. Outside of the obvious "watch where you're going", anyone got some hints/trade secrets they're willing to give up? Salves? rubs? anything?

[+Stunod]

I like my convertable hiking pants.

Edited May 14, 2004 by Stunod

[+woof n lulu]

with or without garter belt?

[+Stunod]

with or without garter belt?

I only wear the removable legs...the garter holds them up!

[+woof n lulu]

with or without garter belt? 

I only wear the removable legs...the garter holds them up!

 

I should have known....

[+SeaTrout]

In Fla,real men cache in shorts. And have the palmetto scars

to prove it .

Bloodletting

Seatrout

Edited May 14, 2004 by SeaTrout

[+LukeH]

ALWAYS wear shorts, whether it is 100 degrees, or 20 below with 4 feet of snow. Real men embrace the pain and do not miss the blood. It's also a thrill not knowing what lies beneath the snow, ready to tear up your legs as you plunge them in.

 

I mention snow because here winter lasts from September to June. It snowed again today.

[Nudecacher]

..., but lack of material is a good thing ...

That's my view exactly. Why buy into textile bondage at all?

 

Nudecacher

[+carleenp]

Ticks are everywhere this year, I see log after log mentioning them.

 

I just bought some convertable pants. That way the legs can quickly go on and off as needed. They are also constructed of very lightwieght wicking fabric. So they can be good as long pants even when it is hot.

[+Halden]

I second the convertable pants. I love mine.

[+nfa]

No lyme-bearing ticks in my neck of the Adirondacks yet...too cold

 

I wear shorts, and take my chances even when in other parts of the Northeast...I take a garlic tab every day, and believe it keeps ticks and black-flys and some people away .

 

nfa

[+Kitch]

Suck it up take the PAIN!! NO PAIN NO GAIN!!!

 

Go in shorts and get the geocaching scars from the thorns, sawgrass, PI etc...its all make a road map story of geocaching on your legs and arms!!!

 

Heck we have a few hides that are in the middle of Buckthorn just for that reason alone.

[+PandyBat]

My grandma says, the quicker you clean a wound, the better it feels and the sooner it heals.

I take along a few wipes, bandaids and triple antibiotic ointment to take care of a cut, scratch or scrape as soon as possible. I'm thinking about carrying a small bottle of peroxide as well to aid in cleaning a wound. Some of those stickers and briars have oils that prolong the pain of a scratch. The sooner you get rid of the oil, the better the scratch feels. Hopefully the peroxide would help in getting rid of those oils. I haven't tried it yet.

 

Outside of wearing pants, that's probably the only thing you can do.

[+Team GPSaxophone]

with or without garter belt? 

I only wear the removable legs...the garter holds them up!

Oh, the mental imagery...

[+MissJenn]

I have always regretted caching in shorts. I get all scratched up. Good thing I can easily grow new skin.

[+Snoogans]

I guess that this would be a No vote:

 

[+cache-man-do]

Snoogans is hard core!!!!!

Do you cache with your eyes open?

 

~Mark

[+Snoogans]

Snoogans is hard core!!!!! 

Do you cache with your eyes open?

 

~Mark

Ummmm, those legs belong to Sam, of UsMorrows. And yes, He's hard core. The cache was High Five by geowyz.

 

BTW- I ALWAYS wear pants.

 

Sn gans

Edited May 14, 2004 by Snoogans

[jfreeman_bsj]

My favorite pants are fatigue-style OD green tucked into my boots with Off sprayed around the top of the boots and the waist. No ticks. Shorts are for LL Bean-yuppie types.

[+LukeH]

My grandma says, the quicker you clean a wound, the better it feels and the sooner it heals.

I take along a few wipes, bandaids and triple antibiotic ointment to take care of a cut, scratch or scrape as soon as possible. I'm thinking about carrying a small bottle of peroxide as well to aid in cleaning a wound. Some of those stickers and briars have oils that prolong the pain of a scratch. The sooner you get rid of the oil, the better the scratch feels. Hopefully the peroxide would help in getting rid of those oils. I haven't tried it yet.

 

Outside of wearing pants, that's probably the only thing you can do.

True. However you do not get any cool scars that way.

[+Mopar]

My leg last night, you tell me:

[+briansnat]

 

My legs look like this from April thru October....with a few raspberries on the hip added from softball. Dude, what's with the cotton socks?

Edited May 15, 2004 by briansnat

[+Melrose Plant]

If you look at my sign-up date, you will see that I have not cached during a summer. However, I did my very latest find in shorts, as I wasn't really sure whether I was going when I left home. I don't think I like it. Urban-type searches excepted, but those are very rare around here. Since I work construction, I can't wear shorts on the job anyway, no matter how hot it is, so I'm used to it.

 

As I often tell people, comfort is overrated. I am often not understood at all on this point.

[+mikedx]

In the heat, I'll take the comfort of shorts over the protection of pants every time. I always come home with cuts, scrapes, etc. I don't put anything on them. They are battle scars I am proud to show off to my friends.

[+GIDEON-X]

Well here in the desert southwest (Yuma, AZ). This 68 year old "LL BEAN - YUPPIE TYPE" prefers shorts to longies, most all year round. once in while when we head up to the High-Country I'll opped for jeans.