What time of the year are flies and mosquitoes seen and found the least in the Sierra Nevada Mountains? I tend to see them alot in meadows in the higher elevations.

December and January are the worst

the 10' of snow just sends them into fits

If you think the Sierra has bugs, visit the Rockies. Our worst days would be a relief.

I carry couple yards of net to rest or sleep under when I hit a bad spot. I've had trips where they'd be heavy in one spot and a mile away nuthin. For no reason at all. Next to a river nothin. On the side of a steep mountain, swarms. By a swamp, nothing.

I did the High Sierra Trail the first week of August last summer and experienced next to no bugs the entire way.

Go when you want to. Don't be a wimp and let the bugs dictate your schedule.

SpiderSavage wrote:If you think the Sierra has bugs, visit the Rockies.

If you think the Rockies are bad, visit the Everglades!


...on a side note, that hike descent off of El Cap last 4th of July really was something else mosquito-wise...forget Everglades, think Nam!

Dingus Milktoast wrote:Right now till when the snow begins to melt in earnest.

DMT

During my inital years in the Sierras we took neither tent nor mosquito repellent...