High Sierra Topix

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.

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5/25 Onion Valley = 0

5/26 Rock Creek to Box Lake = 0

5/27 Sonora Pass = 0

Kibbie Ridge and approach = 0
Kibbie Lake = 1.5

6/3/25 Yosemite North Rim = 1.5

Level 1 all day, including evening and dusk. A nice breeze helped.

See conditions report for general route.

Moderate/heavy on all >7,800' lakes and meadows. Level decreases with elevation, reaching near zero around 8,500'.

Notables:

Roosavelt Lake, Lane Lake, and W Walker River up to Hidden Lake = 3.5

Kennedy Creek between Kennedy Lake and Sharon Lake outlet creek= 3

horseshoe meadows, mulkey meadows, templeton meadows, kern peak, golden trout creek, Rocky basin lakes, boreal plateau, siberian outpost, tunnel meadow ; 0-2 going in, some areas 3 on the way out. Oddly not that much difference between dawn/dusk and midday. They were worst along Golden trout creek and South Fork of the Kern.