Oregon Hikers

Okay, cross Arizona off the list....
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/hiker- ... cid=AARDHP

When I visited Scottsdale last April, I saw a "trail closed due to bees" sign. It seems to be a fairly regular thing.

Obviously we have plenty of bees here too, but they don't seem to cause trouble like they do in the desert... I wonder why.

adamschneider wrote:I wonder why.

I think the aggressive ones are "killer bees". So far it's too cold up here for them but things are warming up

adamschneider wrote:Obviously we have plenty of bees here too, but they don't seem to cause trouble like they do in the desert... I wonder why.

They may not kill people but they do cause problems. I got stung about around 25 times a few years ago between Cache meadow and frazier turnaround. It sucked.

We had a close call with bees on the Tanner cutoff trail last July, multiple nests of angry bees for the best part of 2 miles right along the trail, we all got multiple stings.

Lots of reports of bee problems over several years in this area too on both sides of Tanner Creek. If I was to do the Tanner Cutoff again in Summertime I'd only do it going down hill!

Guy wrote:We had a close call with bees on the Tanner cutoff trail last July, multiple nests of angry bees for the best part of 2 miles right along the trail, we all got multiple stings.

Bees, or yellow jackets?

adamschneider wrote:

Guy wrote:We had a close call with bees on the Tanner cutoff trail last July, multiple nests of angry bees for the best part of 2 miles right along the trail, we all got multiple stings.

Bees, or yellow jackets?

Apologies not bees, either Yellow Jackets or some other kind of ground dwelling angry wasp!