[at-l] contact lenses on the trail

[Snodrog5@aol.com (Snodrog5@aol.com)]

I wear disposables, pack a backup pair of glasses. Usually put in a fresh 
pair to start, leave the lenses in for two days and one night when hiking. 
Use Purell to washup before taking them out, and before putting a new pair 
in. The most trouble I've ever had with contacts hiking- Once in a vertical 
freezing rain with icy cold wind gusts I blinked both lenses out. I pretty 
sure they were freezing up! It was just a January beach hike in Maine, lucky 
I wasn't somewhere 'wild' cuz I'm blind and didn't have my glasses with me. 
The second worst was having a thick spider thread catch across one lens, 
which 'bugged' me for days. That's why I always carry spares, saline, purell, 
and glasses now.
TJ Magoo


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