2017 mid August through first of September bugs everywhere. ?Even bad early September at top of Donahue pass. ?It was a wet year. ?The water is what drives the bugs. ?
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On Mar 2, 2022, at 09:08, Sam Molinari <sammolinari@...> wrote:
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Last year there were no skeeters on the northern part of the trail in the third week of July but plenty of flys.
On Mar 2, 2022, at 7:37 AM, ravi_jmt2013 <ravi@...> wrote:
?My last trip, I started on August 16, 2019 from South Lake, a high snowpack year, and was annoyed by mosquitos the first night in Dusy Basin (I picked a beautiful but bug prone campsite) but mosquitoes were not much of an issue after that going
southbound. I¡¯m starting on August 18 this year, southbound from Mammoth, and I don¡¯t anticipate many bug issues. I don¡¯t think mosquitoes are a huge concern after early August except in very heavy snowpack years.?
