[pct-l] peak mosquito season in Oregon

[darudiva at xs4all.nl (S Daru)]

Hi David,

There's a journal and pictures of Willammette towards Manning of 2001 
on my website www.xs4all.nl/~darudiva. It includes a picture of what my 
leg looked like with mosquito bites. We were in the Three Sisters two 
weeks earlier. There certainly was a difference between camping at the 
lake or away from it. We stubbornly believed the guidebook when it said 
that the lake was a good place to camp and camped right there usually, 
so I am comparing it to the times we rested for lunch away from the 
lake. Even so, away from water you will still not be able to sit 
outside and enjoy the weather. The places I remember best are Cliff 
Lake, where we did camp away from the water and it the mosquito 
situation was better and Sister's Mirror Lake where we listened to a 
sound like being at an F1 race track because of all the bugs just 
outside our thankfully bugproof shelter.

Best wishes,
Saskia

On Dec 2, 2005, at 22:17, David Plotnikoff wrote:

>
>
> Greetings from a long-time lurker and section hiker.
>
> All this recent talk about mosquito resistance prompts me to ask a 
> related
> question or three that pertain to my 750-mile walk next year 
> (Willamette
> Pass to Manning):
>
> 1) I have no choice but to begin walking at Willamette Pass on July 
> 15. (I
> have a set date to cross the border, Sept. 4, which has some personal
> significance.) So that's right around the time Oregon's fabled 
> bloodsuckers
> should be at their most intense. For those of you who have been there 
> and
> done that in mid-July, did it make any appreciable difference 
> whatsoever if
> you camped away from water sources? Or were the hordes just as bad if 
> you
> threw down in dry areas? I'd be willing to water up and put a few miles
> between me and the nearest lake in the Three Sisters area if it meant 
> some
> respite from the little buggers.
>
> 2) Even with arms and legs fully covered, I'm expecting to give my 
> share of
> blood. I'll have the tarptent to retreat into at night. But as for the
> daytime hours, there will probably be no respite, no relief except 
> perhaps
> the headnet, which is a real drag to wear when moving around. My Deet 
> of
> choice will be REI Jungle Juice unless someone can suggest a more
> concentrated formulation. Does anyone have firsthand experience using
> pyrethrin on clothing? The Backpacking Light list had a small thread on
> this a few months back and it sounded as if I need to find the
> garden-strength pesticide formula  -- a 2.5 percent solution -- and 
> soak my
> clothes in it. Between that and the Deet, I'll be a walking, talking
> Superfund toxic cleanup candidate. Anyone have any experience with 
> this?
> I'm guessing it'll only be good for one washing, which would cover 
> Odell
> Lake through Sisters or maybe Timberline.
>
> 3) Finally, for those of you who have done this section in July, when 
> did
> the mosquito situation finally abate? Were they a plague through Warm
> Springs and Jefferson Park or points north?
>
> Thanks for your consideration,
>
> DP
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Saskia Daru
saskiadaru@xs4all.nl