[at-l] Black Fly Report & Question

[agaudet at theworld.com (Arthur Gaudet)]

As I responded to Vic this morning, the blackflies are out and biting around
Monadnock. Further N near N. Woodstock, NH the non-biting flies mass around
your face especially if you're not moving. Where I was on the AT there were
no bugs at all, a nice tradeoff for the cooler weather at altitude...

I expect the Berkshires will be S enough and low enough to have blackflies
in full force, but perhaps others can give a more local report. Now where is
my headnet? --RockDancer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Ehli" <richehli@optonline.net>
To: <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 9:11 PM
Subject: [at-l] Black Fly Report & Question


>
> I was hiking Catskill's Hunter Mtn and vicinity last Saturday. Despite the
> presence of patches of snow above 3500', the blackfly was out in some
> numbers (along with fisherman in the trout streams), more so than I would
> have expected this early in May. For me, it wasn't quite bad enough to
trade
> the bites for DEET but half of the group thought so. Would I be correct to
> assume similar conditions prevail in the Berkshires, where I plan to be
> hiking from Rt. 20 to North Adams later this week? Anyone know?
>
> Beegfut
>
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