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How to avoid the horror of walking through a spiderweb, according to the National Park Service

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How to avoid the horror of walking through a spiderweb, according to the National Park Service
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It’s a downright creepy feeling. You’re striding confidently down what seems to be a clear, open path, and then you feel it. Stretchy filaments dragging across your skin, your clothes—even worse, your face. The more you try to backtrack and flail your way out of it the more you feel like Frodo wrapped in Shelob the spider’s deadly web, your luckier friends snickering like orcs ready to take you back to Mordor. 



Long story short, walking through a spiderweb is awful. However, according to

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