Ticks are an extremely tough and hardy critter. In 1966-67 I walked over on the trail to the waterfall seen
south of hwy 99 and east of Pavilion Lake very early in the year. The whole waterfall was frozen, and there
was a large fan of ice covering at least an acre, probably more, around the base and throughout the trees
and bush. I had no real previous experience with ticks at that time so was utterly amazed to see them actively
crawling all over the ice. There had to be hundreds of them. As soon as we got back to the truck we all stripped
down completely as well as thoroughly checking our clothes. We found a few on the outside of our pant legs
but that was it so we were very lucky.