Are the bugs horrible overnight.
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There is a shift change around dusk.
Chiggers clock out and head for the bar and skeeters clock in.
Seems like the skeeters slack off around 11 pm and your home free after that.
Chiggers clock out and head for the bar and skeeters clock in.
Seems like the skeeters slack off around 11 pm and your home free after that.
I would not do it Virgos. The chiggers will nail you. You may get lucky, but why chance it?
The ticks aren't a problem this time of year, it's the chiggers. See this also: http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/showthread.php?t=4341
If you were that bothered by one tick, you may not want to camp out in the pines in late summer.
I can't comment on the chiggers and ticks, but if it's a nice breezy day/night, the skittas are much easier to deal with.
I'm from Easton, Pa and our Boy Scout camp was in the Water Gap [now part of the recreation area] We had open side Adarondack huts and the Delaware river skeeters used to perch on the foot of the army cot and fight over eating us there or dragging us back to the river...every can of 'off' was MT by the first night 'bout 10 PM!
I'd recomend a good lightweight tent & a can of 'No Stinkin' Bugs!'
Are you allowed to camp overnight in the Wharton? I thought that was allowed only at designated sites by permit. It would stink to get rousted out by rangers at 3 AM or something.
Funny, I was just up at the Delaware Water Gap today (needed a break from the flatlands 
). What a beautiful area, definitely need to get up there more often. I walked through some underbrush and tall grass and from force of habit I cringed every time I did it. But as far as I can tell, no ticks or chiggers. The mosquitoes were definitely there, but not enough to spoil a great day!
). What a beautiful area, definitely need to get up there more often. I walked through some underbrush and tall grass and from force of habit I cringed every time I did it. But as far as I can tell, no ticks or chiggers. The mosquitoes were definitely there, but not enough to spoil a great day!
Funny, I was just up at the Delaware Water Gap today (needed a break from the flatlands
Thanks, Boyd for a post that is not leaving me feeling itchy at my desk
All that talk about chiggers, ugh! My wife and I went to the highlands area last fall (October), it was hard to believe we were still in NJ.
That's exactly what I was thinking! I've only been in that area a couple times before, but on this trip I spent the day on some of the unpaved back roads near the river. During the span of about 5 hours I think I only passed 4 cars. It's spectacular, and there are some great houses and quaint little towns there which time seems to have totally passed by. Definitely worth a trip for anyone who hasn't been there.
Between the pine barrens and highlands New Jersey really has some remarkable places which the average person has probably never seen.
Between the pine barrens and highlands New Jersey really has some remarkable places which the average person has probably never seen.
That unpaved road might have been Old Mine Rd., which is called River Rd. in some places. Were you right alongside the river, with a set of old RR tracks between you and the water? It's a wonderful drive that follows what might be the first long road built in the U.S. (by Quakers, to transport goods from Trenton to the port at Kingston).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Mine_Road
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Mine_Road
The bar must of closed early last night. I was having a blast recording a couple of great horned owls near 2am, situated near the very small pond/bog about two miles east of Quaker Bridge on QBR, and got chigger-nailed. Nothing more telling than that warm, itchy feeling as the clump starts to burrow its way in. I'll be doing the itch dance for a week.
They're so bad now... I don't have many bites but I keep getting them and in really itchy place like between my toes and the sole of my foot. Today I re-treated my clothes with permethrin and made a connection... I have more bites on my left foot, and my left shoe has a hole in it!
Funny, I was just up at the Delaware Water Gap today (needed a break from the flatlands
Our camp was just before the large rock slides & is part fo the recreation complex now. There was a trail east up onto a plateau and then up over the rocks. Allows you to see the fact that the ice stopped there...
Great place to hike as a kid...
Was at the Deleware water gap about a month ago, we where short on time so we went up and down the same trail, I think it was the red one, the one that doesnt loop around, but goes straight up. What a climb.
Amazing views, we also met a guy on the summit who had just seen a few bears.
Amazing views, we also met a guy on the summit who had just seen a few bears.