2013 Mosquito Reports

[maverick]

1 - No mosquitoes or if there are some, but not biting yet
2 - Very light during the day, moderate at dawn and dusk
3 - Moderate during the day, heavy at dawn and dusk
4 - Heavy during the day, heavy at dawn and dusk
5 - Unbearable all day, no breaks, cannot eat outside of tent. If you stop, hundreds
will descend on you; when looking thru a camera viewfinder, you see more skeeters than
lake. If you slapped your arm, you'd smear blood from all the dead gorged bodies

[norcalhiker]

From May 4-5th, I saw a about five mosquitoes on the Kibbie Ridge Trail and none at Boundary Lake.

[Wandering Daisy]

Ice House Reservoir, Crystal Basin Recreation area, west edge of Desolation Wilderness, May 12-13.
Only a few mosquitoes at dusk. And we were camped next to a grassy swampy area.

[dapperdave]

Yosemite - 13-15th May Merced Lake/ LYV Mostly 1, but 2 in shady areas with standing water.

[tomba]

May 10-13 northwest Yosemite: Laurel Lk, Kendrick Ck, Edyth Lk, below Bearup Lk, Jack Main Cyn, Lk Vernon. Few mosquitoes in daytime at creek crossings and few other areas, including evenings/mornings at camps. Many mosquitoes evening/morning NE from Edith Lk at elevation about 7400 ft - just below first patches of snow.

Wind (which can keep mosquitoes down) was weak.

[scrotata]

Tuoloumne Meadows 5/25-5/26: On the hike up to Donohue Pass there were a few, rate it 1-2, and as I gained elevation, it was even better, a solid 1.

[larroyo33]

5/25/13-5/27/13-Onion Valley to Kearsarge Pass, Kearsarge Lakes, Bullfrog Lake, and Charlotte Lake. It was a 1. I only saw one mosquito during the entire trip when I was at Bullfrog Lake.

[J ney]

Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne, 26-27may;
Pate Valley through Muir Gorge: 3/4
Waterwheel Falls and above, 2

[tim]

Cedar Grove: 0 (and none likely either - its already dry as a bone)
Paradise Valley: 0 (a few flies and butterflies in the afternoon, but too cold at night for skeeters)

[kpeter]

Emigrant Wilderness Crabtree--Piute Lake--Deer Lake and vicinities
May 31-June 2
The worst mosquitoes seem to be in a band from 7400-8200 feet.
A "4" at these locations:
Piute Lake
West Fork Cherry Creek Crossings
Piute Creek Crossing

At Deer Lake they were a 2, but were getting worse over the three days I was there.