2011 Skeeter Reports

Questions and reports related to Sierra Nevada current and forecast conditions, as well as general precautions and safety information. Trail conditions, fire/smoke reports, mosquito reports, weather and snow conditions, stream crossing information, and more.
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I was gonna take my boyfriend hiking this weekend (saturday to be exact) 9/10/11 up on the Stebbins Cold Canyon Trail at Berryessa. Does anyone know if there is likely to be mosquitoes around then? He is pretty allergic to their bites.
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At Lake Aloha and Waca Lake (Desolation Wilderness) it was a 2 on Saturday 9/3 and about 1.5 on Sunday 9/4. A few more in the woods at Haypress Meadows but pretty manageable. We did need to get out the deet, unlike previous trips there at this time of year (in less wet years - 2008 & 2009).
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8/29 - Treasure Lakes 2/3
8/30 - Below Lamarck Col 0
8/31 - Wanda Lake 1
9/1 - South Fork San Joaquin bridge on JMT (below Goddard Canyon Jct) 1
9/2 - Marie Lake 1
9/3 - VVR 0
9/4 - Upper Mills Creek Lake 1
9/5 - Bearpaw Lake 1
9/6 - Paris Lake 1
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Last weekend there were swarms of gnats at Wanda Lake (near Muir Pass) - they were terrible and stuck to packs for miles after the lake - I was thinking of camping there, but after the gnats attacked I moved on to Helen Lake on the other side of Muir Pass. There were swarms of gnats next to Evolution Lake too, but they weren't as think as at Wanda Lake and as soon as you got a little away from the lake they weren't bad at all.
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9/16-9/17 ........First Dinkey 1. Second Dinkey 0-1. Island Lake 0.
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Kern River canyon from Sequoia boundary to HST junction: (2-3) 8/31-9/6
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Green lake in the Hoover wilderness 2
East lake 2
West lake 2-3
Gilman 3-4
Little lakes Valley/rock creek 2-3
West Walker river above Pickle meadows 2 All reports from the last two weeks
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Just came back from a 7 day Yosemite trip that went from 7000 feet to 11,300 feet, and there still are a few out there oddly enough (near wet areas). The overall conditions were more like mid August than end of September. The storm this next week should put down the remaining few skeeters.
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