2024 Mosquito Reports

[sidsquid]

Lamarck Lakes: 3
Darwin Bench: 2
Evolution Basin: 3
Dusy Basin: 5

[DevFun]

Devils post pile 0-1

Becks lake: 5

We couldn’t stand them and turned around, maybe better past 10k feet, but it didn’t seem like there was an end in sight. Worse up high at 8-9.7k feet.

[dave_p]

MOSQUITO HATCH ALERT: Sheep Camp all the way up to Mosquito Pass and then down to Emigrant Lake: varies between 3 and 4; 4-5 near water sources.

[riemannzetagambit]

Campgrounds (Sage Flats, trailhead): 0-1
Second Lake: 2-3

Light wind helped to keep bugs down.

[Nozmo King]

Meeks Bay TH: 1-2
Crags Lake Trail: 1-2, with 2-3 in shady, wet areas & 0-1 in dry, sunny stretches
Rubicon Lake: 1-2, with 2-3 at dawn & dusk

Our mosquito friends are around but were held at bay with generous amounts with DEET & a head net

[oddtiger]

Chain Lakes: 4
Breeze Lake:3
Rutherford Lake:2
Anne Lake:3
Slab Lakes: 3
Walton Lake: 2
Edna Lake: 1
Adair Lake:5
upmost lake of Red creek: 1
Lower Ottoway: 3-4
sw lake of Merced Peak: 1
all meadows below 10000 are pretty much 3-4

[mpeters]

Gianelli TH to Granite Lake: 1, spray only
@Granite Lake: 2, late evening and morning only
0 during the day

We didn't use anything besides normal spray and little Deet. I had hiking clothes treated with Permethrin which helped deter them from touching down in the evening and morning.

A day hiker from Wire Lakes said they were fierce there.

[Flamingo]

Upper Virginia Canyon (above 10k') -- 1 at evening, 0 during day
Glines Canyon (east side of Virginia Pass) -- 1-2
Green Lake -- 1-2

[Frogblast]

1. Few mosquitos seen around dusk, and we got no bites with treated clothing.

[Harlen]

6/29 - 7/7

Virtually no mossies on the eastern sides of Sawmill and Taboose Passes.

Level 2 in the high basins west of those passes.

Level 3-4 in the worst places along our route, which were the basin under Window Peak; the basin under (east) of Arrow Peak, and on the Bench Lake terrace; and in all of the Lake Basins-- (Lake, Dumbell, and Amphitheater); in the high basin (11,500') under Split Mtn; and the lake basin under Striped Mtn. Could've reached level 5 at times!

Head-nets helped a lot, Eric lost his bushwhacking, and so he got mine, and I resorted to heavy deet use, which worked like a charm, but now I will surely die young.