Emigrant Wilderness Trip.

[Justin Baker]

Last weekend I took a trip to the Emigrant wilderness with 3 other people.
It was HOT. It almost got 100 and there was very little shade in some places. The nights were too warm and I overpacked in warm clothing.
The mosquitoes were very bad.
Click on the photos to make them bigger.

[David Hankins]

The Emigrant looks very pretty and the snow seems to have all but completely melted away. Too bad about the mosquitoes though.

I'll be making a trip into the Emigrant myself in about 2 weeks or so. Last year I ran into lots of mosquitoes and biting flies. I'll probably plan a higher altitude trip this year – hopefully the insects won't be as bad at elevation.

[Billy Ray]

Mosquito Hell… seems no matter what time of year… even in mid September one year…

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[David W.]

A truly awful place. Best to keep moving south and enjoy mosquito free Yosemite.

Thanks for sharing the pics Justin.

[Andrew F]

Nice. Looks like Camp Lake? Where were those granite cascades?

June/July in Emigrant can be brutal. Worst mosquitoes I've ever experienced were at Groundhog Meadow in mid-June. Emigrant is best enjoyed in the early spring and late fall.

[Justin Baker]

Yeah, the first night was Camp Lake.
I think those granite cascades were at Cherry Creek. We camped at the base of Louse Canyon near the confluence of a couple creeks. We explored up one of them. There were a few large waterfalls and deep pools farther up.
We planned on day hiking up to Rocasso Lake but we saw a thunderstorm move in and we turned back to camp. We would have camped up at Pingree Lake but the hike out would have taken too long for a Sunday.

[Justin Baker]

Everywhere we walked was real swampy. And many of the lakes looked very scummy and stagnant. It was a paradise for mosquitoes.
During the heat of the day we swam around and sat in the exposed sunlight. It was hot enough that the mosquitoes retreated to the shade.

[Paul Wagner]

This is from 2010 in August. Wonderful area:

https://picasaweb.google.com/balzaccom/BackpackingInTheSierraNevadaEmigrantWildernessBackcountryLakes2010#

[Charles P]

Nice. We were out there about 3 weeks ago, maybe 4. Still lots of snow above 8K, which meant no skeeters. The lower elevation meadows were a real bitch though. The mosquitoes were unforgiving.

Deer lake was still half frozen slush.

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