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RP3
Big Wall climber
El Portal/Chapel Hill
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Aug 30, 2012 - 10:40pm PT
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As a friend of mine put it:
"3.7 million people are exposed to gravity in Yosemite each year..."
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Stewart Johnson
climber
lake forest
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Aug 30, 2012 - 10:40pm PT
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mow those lame cabins down and turn curry into a motorhome park.
paved,hookups,indoor pool,waterslide, etc
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Aug 30, 2012 - 10:48pm PT
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Dont forget the climbing wall, Stewart
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squishy
Mountain climber
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Aug 31, 2012 - 05:23pm PT
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NOOOO JEBUS!!!! DON"T TALK LIKE THAT>>> what would you die for this time!! our sins have already been forgiven!!
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Aug 31, 2012 - 05:36pm PT
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they need more coyotes to control the problem. And it just so happens that Davis is in the middle of a coyote overpopulation crisis. Maybe there is a solution in there somewhere....
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Aug 31, 2012 - 05:39pm PT
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And yet they say there is no curse...
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corniss chopper
climber
breaking the speed of gravity
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Aug 31, 2012 - 06:38pm PT
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The Hot Zone?
Hanta Virus-kills its victims so quickly and gruesomely that even biohazard experts are terrified. It is airborne, it has no cure, and in the summer of 2012, it seemed about to burn through the unsuspecting tourists who slept in the Curry tent cabins.
When a hot virus multiplies in a host, it can saturate the body with virus
particles, from the brain to the skin. The experts then say that
the virus has undergone “extreme amplification.”
Extreme amplification is the last thing you want to hear your doctor say as he tries to save your life.
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WBraun
climber
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Aug 31, 2012 - 06:40pm PT
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All they need is house cats.
Make them service cats and mice run away .....
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Plaidman
Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Aug 31, 2012 - 08:27pm PT
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^^^^^^Good one WallEye^^^^^^^
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covelocos
Trad climber
Nor Cal
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Aug 31, 2012 - 09:26pm PT
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10,000?!? It's gonna take more than house cats!
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wbw
Trad climber
'cross the great divide
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Aug 31, 2012 - 09:47pm PT
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Coyotes?? I say send in the snakes.
Apparently many years ago the mice population, which is always thriving at the large high school where I teach, attracted a large population of snaking crawling around under the school, and the mouse problems decreased.
I'm getting freaked out just thinking about it.
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Aug 31, 2012 - 10:40pm PT
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Well, how are they going to clean up all this biohazard contamination in Curry Village? Do they just have to kill the mice, or do they have to get rid of all the infected dust? .
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Aug 31, 2012 - 11:15pm PT
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As far as I can tell, the only people truly at risk were those who stayed in the new improved tents with the insulation.
What amazes me is that apparently nobody knew that rodents just love to nest in insulation. To put up tents with insulation covered by easily chewable canvas was a disaster waiting to happen.
In remote cabins in Colorado, we incase insulation inside of fine wire mesh to keep the rodents out. We also lay this mesh on the ground under cabins and drive sheets of metal roofing 3 feet into the ground around the foundations of the cabin to keep them out.
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BooDawg
Social climber
Butterfly Town
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Aug 31, 2012 - 11:23pm PT
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All we are told is that Deer Mice and "other rodents" carry the disease. Why are we not told WHICH OTHER RODENTS? California Ground Squirrels? Chipmunks? Douglas Squirrels? Grey Squirrels? Shrews? Voles? What other mice? C'mon NPS and CDC! Why keep the public ignorant?
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Aug 31, 2012 - 11:32pm PT
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According to the CDC, the deer mouse is the main culprit in the western U.S. anyway.
In Yosemite they're estimating 18% carry it and in the Four Corners area where Hanta was first discovered, they estimate 30% are carriers.
On June 14, 1993, the CDC identified the deer mouse, found throughout North America, as the primary carrier. Other rodents have also been found to carry viruses that cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome: the cotton rat, ranging from the southeastern United States to South America; the rice rat, ranging from the southeastern United States to Central America; and the white-footed mouse, found throughout much of the United States and Mexico.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Hanta/
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R.B.
Trad climber
47N 122W
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"4 Corners Flu" strikes again. It happens near the four corners region when there is an explosion of Deer Mice.
Need more Snakes and vermin munchin critters.
Remember an outbreak in Northern AZ in 1993? This is nothing new.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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TTR....Nice area up there above eagle lake....RJ
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rich sims
Social climber
co
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What about the kids who clean the cabins.
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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From what I've read, full recovery with no lasting effects if you survive.
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