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Monday, May 14, 2012
 
Poison oak is everywhere in San Francisco Bay Area.
Poison oak is everywhere in San Francisco Bay Area. Everybody encountered it and there are lots of stories about it here. Let me tell you 2 randomly chosen ones.

Story one, from acquaintances, I'll call G:

The four of us on a day hike got stuck on the top of a hill at Big Basin after dark. We could see the road and lights directly below us, and decided to go straight down. The fact that we were bushwhacking through blackberry was immediately obvious to us. But the fact that it was mixed with Poison Oak, only became obvious shortly before the two of us were hospitalized.

Story two, from Natalia L

A bunch of people went camping. They made a fire from some dry wood laying around, and got smoke into the lungs. They realized it was Poison Oak shortly before the 2 of them died and the rest envied the dead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxicodendron_diversilobum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxicodendron_diversilobum

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