Mission: Oregon Get Away
Hi All! The lady, the dog and me are headed out to Oregon in 2 weeks and would like to share our route with everyone to see if we are headed in the right direction. We have our Bigfoot Truck Camper...
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Bigfeets wrote:
Yuck! Am I going to run in to mosquitoes everywhere in Oregon? I have plenty of Deet but really wasn't expecting to have to use it. This is dis-heartening and I might need to look elsewhere.
On the western side of the Cascades generally south of Grants Pass will be skeeterless. North of there it can be bad. East of the Cascades and not much, maybe about 20 miles east virtually none. It's all in the snow melt off and the hatch. After the snow melts there's standing water. Skeeters love standing water. The coast has water but not the snow. Central and eastern Oregon tend to be dryer so no standing water. I have not been up high on the east side except for Paulina and East Lake, so I can't say for those areas. Sometimes it hit or miss. We were up at East lake two yrs ago and no skeeters. Two weeks latter and some people my wife talked to said they were bad. But I can vouch for the North Cascade high lakes. Most are bad. We were down in The Lake of the Woods area last year and no skeeters. It's early in the year so if they are there they will be hungry. Late Aug they tend to be mostly gone. Diamond lake is one of the prettiest areas, we love it. But we have to wait a few year to go each time because of the skeeters.
