A friend of mine and his group will be attempting to summit Whitney via the MT as a dayhike on Aug 6. I've never done the MT that early, so don't know the answer to his question, which is: Should we be concerned enough with mosquitoes anywhere on the trail to warrant bringing bug repellent? Since my ventures on Whitney have always been late Aug - early-mid September, I've not personally had any problems with the little blood-suckers!

CaT

If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)