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Re: Post Your 2009 Skeeter Updates.
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 5:05 pm
by cgundersen
OK, snow sounds much better than DDT. If you have photos, or a link, or a trip report, please torment those of us who are only semi-longing to fend off the voracious hoards of parka-clad mosquitos.
Thanks,
CG
Re: Post Your 2009 Skeeter Updates.
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:32 pm
by CinnamonGirl
cg,
i'm more of a lurker than a poster. but since you asked, here is a link to my pix of last weekend. i did not take a pix of any skeeters biting the crap out of me. "they are not worthy!" and i am still scratching 1 week later. darn those litle buggers...
http://picasaweb.google.com/ryan.norma8 ... 6260962809#" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
cg
Re: Post Your 2009 Skeeter Updates.
Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:55 am
by maverick
Hi CinnamonGirl
Please post pic's with a TR next time, it is really helpful and informative to all of us
planning trips out in the near future to this area or others at similiar elevations, not to
mention the wonderful pic's of Dusy and Barrett Lakes you posted.
It is allways great to see places you've visited many times before at a different time of
year. Thanks again.
Re: Post Your 2009 Skeeter Updates.
Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 3:45 pm
by mountaineer
losthillsguy wrote:June 27-29
Tuolumne and Tenaya Lake Area #3
Saddlebag Lake and 20 Lakes Loop #2
Think they are getting worse or better as time goes on?
Re: Post Your 2009 Skeeter Updates.
Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 9:11 pm
by ndwoods
Just got back from Nelson lake area (btwn Cathedral Lakes area and Lyell Canyon roughly) and they were a 4. I am covered in bites and I had DEET on! They were very tiny too...just hatching, sigh. It was still a beautiful trip. I did have long sleeves and long pants knowing the probability of skeeters, but forgot the headnets...!
Re: Post Your 2009 Skeeter Updates.
Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 9:14 pm
by ndwoods
maverick wrote:Pleasant & Pate Valley #2 on amount of skeetrz but not really biting yet, sure to change
pretty soon.
So...maybe most here know this already, but the first ones to come out don't bite cuz they are the males. They just do tons of pollinating...give us wildflowers! It's the females that do the biting and sucking blood to reproduce....
Re: Post Your 2009 Skeeter Updates.
Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:03 pm
by cgundersen
Thanks to CinnamonGirl for the TR! In spite of the postholing at this time of year, the snow really adds perspective to the hills and fuels all those splendid bugs!
Cheers,
CG
Re: Post Your 2009 Skeeter Updates.
Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 5:21 pm
by rscofield
5+ in Monarch Divide area- Granite Lake/Pass, State Lake, Volcanic Lakes, and Kennedy Pass
Re: Post Your 2009 Skeeter Updates.
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:15 am
by trav867
As of the 4th, a 3 in cottonwood lakes/miter basin/rock creek, but 1 above 11,000ft.
Re: Post Your 2009 Skeeter Updates.
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:45 am
by aufsess
Just finished the High Sierra Trail yesterday.
Skeeters not bad, except for Wallace Creek, which was terrible, where the HST and JMT meet. Hamilton Lakes was supposed to be terrible, but it was very manageable. Also, Outpost Camp below Whitney was unpleasant, but not terrible.