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squishy
Mountain climber
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Wait what? in high camps? WTF
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WBraun
climber
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Something strange here???
All year long the maids have been cleaning these units.
How come none of them were infected?
Wouldn't they be the first?
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HTech
Trad climber
Seattle
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This reminds me of the bear boxes in Camp 4. Has anyone else noticed that many of the bear boxes there have five quarter sized holes in the bottom? I learned to check the bear box before I move my food in. If it has the holes I put duct tape over the holes which seems to keep the mice out. Without being blocked the holes and boxes themselves seem to provide the perfect shelter, protection and food source for the mice. I've wished for years that the park would cover these holes. Not sure why they are there in the first place.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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How come none of them were infected?
They prolly weren't raised in oversanitized American homes.
But then that theory doesn't explain why Navajos and Hopis regularly fall
victim. Funny how this gets so much more press when it is rich white folk
getting sick rather than the regular customers in the Four Corners region.
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10b4me
Ice climber
dingy room at the Happy boulders hotel
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Something strange here???
All year long the maids have been cleaning these units.
How come none of them were infected?
Wouldn't they be the first?
Good question Werner. Since the virus is transmitted thru the air, wouldn't the people, I.e. maids, be the most susceptible?
Funny how this gets so much more press when it is rich white folk
getting sick rather than the regular customers in the Four Corners region.
Now there you go again. Talkin about them damn injuns
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Urizen
Ice climber
Berkeley, CA
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Now it all becomes clear. While the NPS was distracting us with Merced River Plans 1 - 5, they were busy stealthily implementing Plan 6: depopulate the place with toxic mice.
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froodish
Social climber
Portland, Oregon
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I learned to check the bear box before I move my food in. If it has the holes I put duct tape over the holes which seems to keep the mice out
Can't imagine that duct tape would slow the little buggers down for more that a few seconds.
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Impaler
Social climber
Berkeley
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So, I'm a bit worried now. I climbed inverted staircase on Fairview on Saturday and there was mouse poop all over every ledge on the route. I was careful not to touch it, but there's a limit to what you can do in this situation. Obviously, I was later eating food before I got to wash my hands. Also saw a mouse poke out of a crack on the nose the weekend before (although no excrement). Should I check in with a doctor?
It's only 20 miles from curry village to Fairview and even less to El Cap. The mice all over the park must be contracting this virus. Scary. I was feeling kind of shitty on Monday (stomach issues), but I assume the incubation period would be much longer...
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Psilocyborg
climber
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yes you have hanta virus
no you shouldn't go to a doctor
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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So, I'm a bit worried now. I climbed inverted staircase on Fairview on Saturday and there was mouse poop all over every ledge on the route. I was careful not to touch it, but there's a limit to what you can do in this situation. Obviously, I was later eating food before I got to wash my hands. Also saw a mouse poke out of a crack on the nose the weekend before (although no excrement). Should I check in with a doctor?
It's respiratory. So you can touch mouse poop or even eat mouse poop with virus all you want.
Just don't inhale.
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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yes you have hanta virus
no you shouldn't go to a doctor
EXACTLY. Hey what happened to Jebus anyway, is he gonna make it?
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lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
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Hell!
Back when MCA ran Curry, they use to catch them and grind them up: that is what they served for their sausages at the Breakfast Buffet plus they would pick up/collect and take all the cigarette filters or butts and use them to filter the coffee.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Someone needs to do prison time for this.
Innagine if a bunch of people were killed because they all stayed in a particular Super 8 for lack of BASIC sanitation. The people running the place would go to prison, and then be deported back to India if they ever get out.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Where does it say in your constitution that the federal government is responsible for eradicating rodents in national parks? Or do you want a bigger government? Why shouldn't the DNC pay for whatever's needed, anyway?
Perhaps a pack of Dobermans could help, aided by kite-borne surveillance with infrared sensors.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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You don't have to erradicate the rodents. Just keep them outside.
Any owner/operator of a non-Government establishment would be looking at multiple manslaughter charges - if not second degree murder - if tne same thing had gone down in their joint.
The people who took the rent money are criminals.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Perhaps the Republicans will now declare a "War on Terrorist Rodents", and start denouncing Obama for the rodent gap. No rodent left behind, eh?
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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I don't think we should waterboard the mice - it's not their fault they're sick.
But maybe we should consider sending them to Guantanamo - until hostilities cease.
I know if someone in one of my joints gets sick because of something as benign appearing as mold, I'll be held responsible - perhaps criminally. If my joints are infested with rodents, covered in mold, or whatever the unhealthy conditions, Slumlord Laws apply, and they'll lock me up for my irresponsibility.
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Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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Well now (as Harding would say) - don't forget that bubonic plague was once reported to be endemic in the ground squirrels above Yosemite Falls.
Just for laughs, here's a bit of doggerel I wrote a few years ago (from Canada) about said Hanta virus:
Of Mice and Men
(Peromyscus zoonosus)
His name is Peromyscus.
You know him as the deer mouse.
You also call him other things
When he appears in your house.
He’s really very handsome.
His eyes are big and sparkly.
So why do we revile him so
And think of him so darkly?
Because of those black pellets
He leaves upon the table,
And on the sink, and in your food,
And anywhere he’s able.
Though biologic warfare
May not be his intention,
He is a bio-terrorist
Of microtine dimension.
He’s got a bio-weapon.
It’s one of mass destruction.
It’s called the Hanta virus,
An intestinal production.
Don’t tell George Bush about it,
This weapon scatological -
For Canada has gas and oil -
Invasion’s therefore logical.
WM
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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"At face lift are we going to need a tyvek suit a resopirator and rubber gloves?"
You should ALL wear your respirators, especially where the tourists congregate. It won't make you safer so much as it would create chaos among the Tourons.
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