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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Sebastopol, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 14, 2009 - 07:05pm PT
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They are terrorists!!
Luckily this was just a directional on the fixed line, left over one night.
They ate my shoes and a quickdraw too. Rrrrrrr.....
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caughtinside
Social climber
Davis, CA
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Sep 14, 2009 - 07:09pm PT
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yegads!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Sep 14, 2009 - 07:10pm PT
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D, you ever see them go all the way thru overnight on a sling?
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Barcus
Trad climber
San Luis Obispo, Ca.
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Sep 14, 2009 - 07:10pm PT
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Lets go Squrrel huntin!
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Sebastopol, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 14, 2009 - 07:11pm PT
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I have now.
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Gobee
Trad climber
Los Angeles
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Sep 14, 2009 - 07:22pm PT
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Rats, that looked new!
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Phil_B
Social climber
Hercules, CA
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Sep 14, 2009 - 07:30pm PT
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Little guys thought they could set up shop in my car last month!
Took a while, but I found their next on top of my cabin air filter. Yech, every time I turned on the air con, it smelled like mouse piss.
It sure felt good to catch them with mouse traps
Edit: Dang Jerry, whaddya got, peanut butter fingers?
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xtrmecat
Trad climber
Kalispell, Montanagonia
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Sep 14, 2009 - 08:29pm PT
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Out here the packrats just kill the rap anchors, alpine that is. I do not know what it is they desire in the nylon, what makes it so tasty, but they sure do eat the crap out of it. This was removed by hand for obvious reasons, but the original slung rock had about 15 newer slings on it. Only 1 had no signs of chewing, every other one had at least one chew mark if not upwards of ten. Kinda makes you wanna fix days ahead of time, doesn't it?
Bob
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Sep 14, 2009 - 08:32pm PT
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zactly, imagine leaving a fixed line with these jackbooted Ratzis around!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sep 14, 2009 - 08:33pm PT
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Ya know Scuff, we might should retrieve those two Cams on that thing kinda near SPH....
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Sebastopol, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 14, 2009 - 08:42pm PT
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"Dang Jerry, whaddya got, peanut butter fingers"
Ha! Them'z not me fingerz.
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David Wilson
climber
CA
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Sep 14, 2009 - 08:42pm PT
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never seen a critter eat through so cleanly with a determined 90 degree cut. maybe it was a clear message to replace the webbing on those mid 80's tech friends....
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Fritz
Trad climber
Hagerman, ID
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Sep 14, 2009 - 08:43pm PT
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I think it is salt, from your sweaty hands, on the slings,----or maybe that nylon fluff makes for a soft nest. I've had packrats bouncing off my chest, at intervals, all night: chewing on my nice salty helmet liner.
Yep! Chewed it down to the plastic and ate some of that too.
Boots left at the base of a rock-shoe climb? If you're lucky: just the liners will be missing.
We shoot those rodents in Idaho.
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MisterE
Trad climber
Canoga Bark! CA
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Sep 14, 2009 - 08:45pm PT
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Mean old snafflehounds :(
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luggi
Trad climber
from the backseat of Jake& Elwood Blues car
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Sep 14, 2009 - 08:49pm PT
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I smell blood in the air...war on the Vermin's
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rwedgee
Ice climber
canyon country,CA
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Sep 14, 2009 - 09:00pm PT
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A marmot got my fav Patagucci
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Sep 14, 2009 - 09:04pm PT
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but not the bagel on the passenger seat!
woot!!
1 for climbers
2 for Ratzis
get the gun, we'll even the score in IdaHO
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Ray-J
Social climber
east L.A. vato...
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Sep 14, 2009 - 09:06pm PT
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They know how to destroy certain electronics devices too...
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Sep 14, 2009 - 09:13pm PT
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They must all be related to the Evil Squirrel that lives in Chevy Chases Christmas Tree........:DD
Sorry guys for all the ruined gear and clothes....your basic 22 will work. Peace to you. Not the rodents. Lynnie
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Phil_B
Social climber
Hercules, CA
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Sep 14, 2009 - 09:31pm PT
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I think it is the salt. When I was doing field work for my thesis, we had to put about a km of wire out to connect the electrodes. The data collection often lasted about 8 hrs so we had a lot of time to just hang out.
It would really suck to have the potential drop to 0 after 3 hours. We'd have to walk the lines and more often than not, it was rodents that would eat the salt off the insulation. We ended up using light gloves to keep the wires clean.
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