Climb Eastern Canada

by **kate** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:14 pm

does anyone know the bug status at Sorrow's End?

by **dquinn** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 10:27 pm

Come on Kate, say it in climber: ask for the beta.

by **martha** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:06 am

Kate wants the 'beta' on the bugs.... I'll bet cause she can't wear any bug dope.
:wink:

I went for citronella last year and it worked pretty good!!

Not as good as deet.. but better than nothing!

by **ben smith** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:02 am

bugs at sorrows are INSANE- its black fly season and they swarm like crazy

by **Eager** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 7:07 pm

Yeah, unfortunately all this rain translates into prime breeding grounds for all those blackflies. All that marshy area around sorrows is a festering pot of procreation for billions of bugs....... and just when you think it's safe cause it's sunny out and it would be a great day to hit the crag......they decide to hatch. I was on a river system around parrsboro on sunny canada day and was eaten alive by blackflies, never seen it worse, and I've had some epic blackfly days in terence bay, took a week to recover.

by **kate** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 8:38 am

well, we managed an afternoon of climbing unscathed. on the hike in we were swarmed by deer flies, and on the hike out we were attacked by black flies and mosquitoes - BUT it was windy enough at the crag that we were bugfree for climbing/belaying! thanks everyone for the beta on the bugs. :lol:

by **Fred** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:46 pm

Eager wrote:Yeah, unfortunately all this rain translates into prime breeding grounds for all those blackflies. All that marshy area around sorrows is a festering pot of procreation for billions of bugs.......

I think blackflies breed in running water and mosquitos breed in stagnant water?

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