High Sierra Topix

Yosemite

7/29 top of Snow Creek falls: 3
7/30 area around North Dome during the day: 0
7/30 top of Yosemite Falls: 0

8/2/15 Little Lakes Valley//Mosquito Flats Trail Head.... Hiked around all day mosquito level 3. Didn't use any deet and ended up with 10 or so bites.

7/30 - 8/3

Lost Lake, Roaring River, Tamarack Lake/Elizabeth Pass Jct, and Alta Meadow - 1

The only camp that might have been 1+ was Big Bird Lake at dusk.

Never used the headnet or deet I brought.

Desolation Wilderness, Aug 2-5
Heather Lake 1
Upper Lake Aloha 1 (a few right before sunset, but nothing later)
Stony Ridge Lake 2 (I didn't notice them at the time, but noticed two bites the next day)

Yosemite Lyell Canyon August 7-8 ---- was a solid 2, pulled out the head nets in the late afternoon following a mid-day hailstorm.

Aug 1 Sherwin Lakes=0 breezy then pouring rain
Aug. 2. Little Lakes Valley am (0-0.25) two kills no bites, Aug. 2 above Little Lakes Valley (Peppermint Pass to Spire Lake)=0 cool and breezy
Aug. 3. Peppermint Pass-L Italy-White Bear=0 cool and breezy as above
Aug 4 Bear Basin to E Pinnacles Creek=0 as above
Aug 5 E Pinnacles Creek to W Pinnacles Creek=0 as above; Hutchinson Mdw to Lower Honeymoon L=1 (about 15 kills no bites) Ramona L=0 breezy
Aug 6 Ramona L-Lower Honeymoon L-Piute Pass trail=0 breezy

Twin Lakes-Kerrick Meadows Lollipop, 8/20-8/22

All 1's (almost no mosquitoes present, none landing). Twin Lakes to Barney Lake to Peeler Lake; Kerrick Meadows to Rock Island Pass to Snow Lake to Crown Lake; Robinson Lakes to Barney Lake to Twin Lakes.

Warm and very sunny during the day, clear and in the 40's at night, south winds to 15 mph in the afternoons and eves. High meadows were still wet with ponds (including yellow-legged frog, tree frog, and yosemite toad - yeay herps!).

-Packrat

Hiked up Langley this past weekend (first 14er!)

Cottonwood Lakes - 0, I didn't see a single mosquito. Camped at Lake 3
From Lake 3 to South Fork Lakes - 0, no mosquitoes seen

Crabtree Trailhead: 0
Camp Lake: 0
Lilly Pad Lake: 0
Gem Lake: 0

We planned a full circuit from Crabtree to Gem, Gem to Long Lake, to ToeJam, to Chewing Gum and back to Crabtree. Unfortunately I got a nasty head cold on the drive up. We hiked from Crabtree to Gem and did not experience a single mosquito anywhere on the trail. Spend the night at Gem and woke up the next morning with the same terrible head cold. We cut the trip short and hiked back to Crabtree.

Patrick