[pct-l] Mosquito Net

[Phil Baily]

When I walked the JMT (too long ago to mention the date) in August of 
a heavy snow year, the worst place was McClure Meadows. Approaching 
it, we had warnings for 2-3 days. It was bad. We continued south to a 
smaller higher meadow, whose name I don't recall; it was better but 
bad enough that mosquitoes kept getting on the food in our spoons as 
we brought them to our mouths! DEET kept us from bites, but it was 
annoying enough that we stayed in our tent after dinner and waited 
for cooling before cleaning our dishes.

Pieces


At 11:02 PM 2/27/08, montypct wrote:
>Hey JJ !!!
>You were at K Meadows in 2004.
>That was the last place I saw you.
>
>The first mosquito area I've ever had was Crabtree Meadows, but not 
>on a thru hike.
>
>It still had enough in 2004.
>Last year they were bad enough to deet it up.
>
>The worst were Rae Lakes 2004 and 2007
>You didn't need to carry food.  You were constantly eating and 
>breathing mosquitos.  Clouds of them.
>
>Next Section
>About a days hike north of Tuolumne Meadows you cross a 
>river.  Boulder hop.  There's a big flat camping area that holds 
>three or four groups.  Fire rings and all.  Just before a big climb. 
>2004 my friend Christy and I were glad we had tents.
>
> From there north was the longest stretch of mosquitos.  There's a 
> mosquito pass or Mosquito Lake or both.
>
>The worst part of that whole section 04 and 07 was Dorthy 
>Lakes.  Getting up into the higher elevations near Sonora Pass the 
>mosquitos went away.  I've never had mosquito problens north of there.
>
>Monty
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