A couple of years ago I went for a walk on a trail in Lebanon, NH. The trail went through a large field of grass but the trail had been mowed and also driven on by ATVs. The grass was only 4-6" long in the trail. There was a sign at the trailhead warning that it was tick season, but in all my years in New England I never happened to be in an area where they were a problem so I didn't worry much about it.

When I was at the end of the trail I turned around and headed back and noticed a couple of ticks on my shoes. I started looking everywhere on blades of grass and never saw any.

I was freaking out when I got back to the car as I was finding ticks all over me. I took my shirt off and found a few. I got in the car and headed back to work. I had to stop twice to get out and brush off ticks that were crawling on my pants and shirt.

I stripped down in the bathroom at work and found several more ticks. I went over my clothes carefully two different times, pulling several ticks off and finding more on the second inspection. A few were already embedded in my legs.

I went back to my desk and answered the door. The delivery guy noticed a tick on my ear.

I was in a Zoom meeting and felt two more ticks on me during the meeting which I removed.

After the meeting I went in the bathroom and stripped down again and found a couple more.

After I got home the wife found one more on my back.

I had removed somewhere around 40 ticks. These were larger ticks which supposedly don't carry Lyme, but it was still freaky and I will never hike in that area again!

Since then I do tick checks after hiking and only occasionally found one.