Hands down best option is to treat your clothing with permethrin.
If you buy the pre-diluted stuff, you're pretty unlikely to have any sort of reaction. Not impossible, though.
I diluted a concentrated permethrin to soak a bunch of clothes last year for work, and that tingled until I washed them a couple times. Probably should have diluted it more.
Get into the habit of checking yourself after spending time in the woods, too. I've caught many ticks this way. A few times, I've even FELT larger ticks like dog ticks and lone star ticks bite me while I was on my way home.
Also be aware, that most people who get lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases aren't getting it from ticks they get while out hiking or mountain biking. Nope. They pick those ticks up while doing yard work. For your yard, use "tick tubes". You can buy them as-is. But they're just permethrin-treated cotton balls shoved into tp tubes. Put them out in your garden, and the local field mice will take the cotton balls for nest material. Now, you're killing the ticks that feed on the mice. Since the mice are a reservoir for lyme disease, you break the life cycle of the disease and there are fewer ticks in your yard as well as fewer disease-transmitting ticks in your yard.
