Austin trail safety: How to deal with nature that can hurt you
Staff Writer
Austin 360
Sometimes it feels like Mother Nature wants to prove she’s tougher than us. And it’s obvious she is, if you’ve ever had a run-in with a patch of poison ivy, accidentally kicked a fire ant mound or gotten stung by a scorpion.
To improve the odds that you’ll survive your next adventure unscathed, we’ve rounded up some basic information on how to duck — and deal with — the blows that Mother Nature sometimes doles out.