2024 Mosquito Reports

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2024 Mosquito Reports

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Use the following scale to report the severity of the mozzies you experience:

0 - No mosquitoes

1 - They were present 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 the tent. If you stop, hundreds will descend on you; looking through a camera viewfinder, you see more skeeters than a lake. If you slapped your arm, you'd smear blood from all the dead gorged bodies.

Please do not post questions or ask about a particular area in this thread; any off-topic comments will be deleted.

Please include where you went, with dates included, in the "Subject" box. Thanks
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I don't give out specific route information, my belief is that it takes away from the whole adventure spirit of a trip, if you need every inch planned out, you'll have to get that from someone else.

Have a safer backcountry experience by using the HST ReConn Form 2.0, named after Larry Conn, a HST member: http://reconn.org
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