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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Oct 28, 2009 - 03:09am PT
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Suicide ground squirrels will chew your shirts clean thru.
lost some good tie dies that way.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Feb 27, 2013 - 01:30am PT
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Bump for a good thread until IT showed up.
Nevertheless.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Feb 27, 2013 - 01:58am PT
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Why do I have a Tami Cartoon of mice chewing the anchor point of a portaledge going through my head?
And I thought all I had to worry about was Hanta?
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Feb 27, 2013 - 11:42am PT
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In Colorado, porcupines are probably the worst pest for ruining things while looking for salt in the wilderness. Whilehorse camping, we always had to suspend our saddles and other horse gear on ropes between trees to keep the porcupines out. Recently, they ate the wooden shutters off my cabin too.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 27, 2013 - 12:01pm PT
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Jan, that ain't half as bad as the time a porcupine tried to share my bivy
ledge on a rescue! He was pretty darn reasonable though. There was this
little spindly Waiting-For-Godot tree about 5 feet tall growing out of the
ledge 1 foot from me that he climbed about 3 feet up into and settled
into a fork and we all had a nice snooze. When I awoke he was gone, like a
pin cushion in the night.
ps
I'm going to pm you a link to an LA Times article on Uchinaaguchi classes
here in LA!
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Feb 27, 2013 - 12:12pm PT
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"BITD the NPS Ranger at the base of Mt Olympus (Olympic NP) bragged to me about 'offing' 100 mice one night with his 'wheel of death'. He set up a gangplank leading to a wheel with some cheese on it suspended over a big bucket; death by drowning. He had to get up several time to empty the bucket!"
That's amazing. Must have been hell to try and get some sleep with them running all over you are night. Look like this?
Why don't climbers who are going to leave a fixed rope in place or bivi in an area of high rodent concentrations leave a box of this nearby? I never have, but wondered if anyone has even considered it.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 27, 2013 - 12:21pm PT
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Couch, that's it, although his was old skool galvanized.
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karodrinker
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Feb 27, 2013 - 12:35pm PT
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the d con would then poison the birds who eat rats, so really bad idea.
I Wonder, has any climber ever taken the chop because of rat chewage through an anchor? freaky to think about on the death slabs and such, as well as all the fixed on the east ledges.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Oct 26, 2015 - 07:01pm PT
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dogs and cats are currently taking a beating on the front page so i toss this into the fray, maybe take a little pressure off
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