[pct-l] PCT Oregon - Mosquitos

[Jeffrey Olson]

Back in 1995 on a late June/early July section hike I stopped at Elk 
Lake for a resupply.  As I lounged at a picnic table, making a garbage 
pile, a troop of girls came out of the woods.  All of them had dozens 
and dozens of big, red bites on exposed skin.  I talked with their 
leader and she said they'd come out four days early because of the 
mosquitos.

I'd spent the previous night at a lake and had to set up my tent and 
dive into the skeeters were so thick.  I ate dinner while on a fast walk 
around the lake, staying just ahead of the swarm.  The temperature was 
mid-70s and a bit humid.  The world gets small when skeeters are thick 
and voracious...

Jeff
Laramie, WY

On 2/29/2016 9:06 AM, James Vesely wrote:
> I'll second that.   I have never seen so many mosquitos in my life.    It was literally like a cloud around my body.   Deet kept them from landing but it made little difference, it seemed that there was at least 4 or 5 of the buggers per square inch.   If you stopped moving you were doomed.
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> Jim
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> Only thru-hikers are foolish/desperate enough to enter the Sky Lakes Wilderness during the hatch!
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> Starting on June 10th is probably doable.  You will find snow over Jefferson and probably by Crater Lake.  I think your real issue will be mosquitoes.
> Middle of June to middle of August is prime mosquito season in pretty much all of Oregon and northern California.  Just be prepared.
> Little Brown
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