2010 Skeeter Updates
- hikerchick395
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Re: 2010 Skeeter Updates
June 17...Pine Lake...#1...no mosquitos
June 19...Blue Lake...#1...no mosquitos
But...both days were breezy to windy
Windy here NW of Bishop, too...haven't spotted mosquitos here either (?) but the deerflies are out being pests
June 19...Blue Lake...#1...no mosquitos
But...both days were breezy to windy
Windy here NW of Bishop, too...haven't spotted mosquitos here either (?) but the deerflies are out being pests
- kpeter
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Re: 2010 Skeeter Updates
Just back from Vernon Lake/Jack Main canyon. As of June 20, I would rate mosquitos a 1. I saw 3 mosquitos in 4 days. In this area snow has been melted only for a week or two. There is lots of standing water and I would expect them to ramp up soon.
At the entrance gate to Hetch Hetchy, however, I would rate them a 3. I was bitten repeatedly in the five minutes it took me to get my permit. The ranger said they had started a couple of weeks earlier and were getting worse by the day.
At the entrance gate to Hetch Hetchy, however, I would rate them a 3. I was bitten repeatedly in the five minutes it took me to get my permit. The ranger said they had started a couple of weeks earlier and were getting worse by the day.
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Re: 2010 Skeeter Updates
At Rancheria Falls, June 18-20 they were definitely a 3 under the trees. The second night we moved a a more exposed site on top of the rocks and the breeze kept them down to barely a 2. On the walk in there were quite a few in shaded/damp spots even during the day. Higher up (Le Conte Point) none at all.
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Just got back from 4 days at Hilton Lakes and only saw a couple skeeters the entire trip. No one in our group used any DEET and only a few bites reported. I came home with one bite on my arm. Most of the snow is gone from the lower lakes and there is standing water everywhere so it's just a matter of days before it gets much worse there.
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Re: 2010 Skeeter Updates
Hatch is on in the Bridgeport Valley. Rate a 2-3. Almost nothing during the day when it is warm but becomes pretty heavy at dusk. Have not seen much in the back country yet but have not been there at dawn or dusk.
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Re: 2010 Skeeter Updates
As of 6/22, Horseshoe Meadows / Cottonwood Pass is a 3
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Horseshoe Meadows, 6/20: about a 2, but somehow they all found me.
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Re: 2010 Skeeter Updates
Greg maybe it would be useful to have some information and tips about successfully camping and hiking during mosquito season. Something to add below your title post. Every year on several boards I read numbers of posts by those for whom mosquitoes obviously are plaguing. Seems those of us that rarely get bit like this person are always in a small minority. Of course I always see lots of people when I am out there suffering...wrong clothing, wrong choice of campspots, stop wrong spots along trails, don't understand best times of day to hike to avoid squeets, mediocre repellant, the grubby, sweaty, stinky that squeets seek.
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Sounds like a great idea. A more permanent solution might be to add an article into the header page linksSSSdave wrote:Greg maybe it would be useful to have some information and tips about successfully camping and hiking during mosquito season. Something to add below your title post. Every year on several boards I read numbers of posts by those for whom mosquitoes obviously are plaguing. Seems those of us that rarely get bit like this person are always in a small minority. Of course I always see lots of people when I am out there suffering...wrong clothing, wrong choice of campspots, stop wrong spots along trails, don't understand best times of day to hike to avoid squeets, mediocre repellant, the grubby, sweaty, stinky that squeets seek.
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Re: 2010 Skeeter Updates
Rowell Meadow, Belle Canyon, Ranger Lakes, 6/23-25, all MAR 1. Still tons of snow up there, which would account for the lack of mosquitoes in this otherwise famously mosquito-infested area.
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