I am no longer going into the wild outdoors. A few years ago they were no where and now they are everywhere.There's no livin to be done out there. Even sticking to the trails I still end up with a crap load on my pants.
There's absolutely no way you can survive out in the wild no more. Even sticking to the trails you end up with a crapload of these demonic soulles creatures on your pants that will make you sick and die. You can't focus on making a shelter, gathering and hunting food as you are constantly getting the ticks off you. It takes all the fun out of it. The only way for us humans now to reliably have an outdoor lifestyle is to own a large plot of land and your own homestead, because you can raise chickens and other fowl that eat these pests and clean the area.

Just wait untill these pests wreak havoc on your area if they haven't already. They're coming