[pct-l] Sierra mosquitos in late July

[cmkudija at ca.rr.com]

Bring the DEET but leave the headnet at home or in your car.  It's been dry
enough this year that the mosquito hordes will be gone by the end of the
month.  There will be some - but frankly, THIS year it won't be anywhere
near what it was like last year, and even three weeks will make a difference
in the Sierran skeeter population (the slender-winged Sierran butterflies, I
mean :)).  Having a small Repel 100 spray bottle or tube of Ultrathon should
be sufficient.   During my last two section H hikes - 2005 & 2006, late
August/early September in heavy snow years, comparable to late July this
year w/respect to surface water in meadows & shallow lakes  - I rarely used
repellent.  I don't hesitate to use it when needed - I have a definite hate
relationship with mosquitoes.

Christine "Ceanothus" Kudija
PCT partially '94

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Ceanothus (see-ah-no-thus) or California lilac:  Shrubs or small trees,
often with divaricate, sometimes spiny, twigs...[flowers] small but showy,
white to blue or purplish, sometimes lavender or pinkish, borne in terminal
or lateral panicles or umbellike cymes.
                                                               Philip A.
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                                                               A California
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-----Original Message-----
From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net]On
Behalf Of Junaid Dawud
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 11:07 PM
To: Roger Carpenter; pctl pctl
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Sierra mosquitos in late July

I was thru that area last year around the beginning of
July (arrived at mono hotsprongs july4).  I personally
wouldn't chance it, I'd bring DEET and a bugheadnet.

---------speshul41


--- Roger Carpenter <rogercarpenter at comcast.net>
wrote:

> I'm going to be hiking in the Sierras in late July
> on the PCT in the Selden
> Pass / Vermillion Valley area.  Does anyone have any
> idea what the mosquitos
> are going to be like?  I know in late June they are
> typically pretty thick
> but I have never hiked the Sierra in late July
> during a dry, low snowpack
> year like this year is.
> Roger Carpenter
>
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