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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 17, 2015 - 07:39am PT
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Fritz has one method, there must be another.
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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May 17, 2015 - 07:55am PT
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Might not scare marmots but who really cares?
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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May 17, 2015 - 08:34am PT
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I am not going to hire Ron A's nephews to guard Heidi's garden.
Killing yellow-bellied Marmots, aka Rockchucks, is very fashionable here in Idontno.
Nearby Bliss Idaho hosts the annual Rockchuck Derby May 12-17 with prizes for the largest Rockchuck brought in. Fun for the whole family!
http://rockchuckderby.com/
They also have a Facebook page with photos of a lot of Garden Friendly Rockchucks & a new world record Rockchuck at 19.57 lbs.
https://www.facebook.com/rockchuckderby
Every day our peaceful rural air is filled with the sound of gunshots & the occasional bullet ricocheting by.
I'm up to 16 dead Rockchucks on our rocky 5 acres with lots more out there. The toll of dead flowers is much higher than that. I did put an electric Rockchuck fence around the vegetable garden that seems to be holding them out------so far.
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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May 17, 2015 - 09:03am PT
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Moose: We were in the nick of time. You were in great peril.
Flip: I don't think I was.
Moose: Yes, you were. You were in terrible peril.
Flip: Look, let me go back in there and face the peril.
Moose: No, it's far too perilous.
Flip: Look, it's my duty as a knight to sample as much peril as I can.
Moose: No, we've got to find the Holy Grail. Come on.
Flip: Oh, let me have just a little bit of peril?
Moose: No. It's unhealthy.
Flip: I bet you're gay.
Moose: No, I'm not.
Be careful out there,
Too surreal? What are we talking about again? Marmot? Couldn't you pass them off as Boutique Western Pets. #WyomingPotBelliedBearsDelivered.Com
Wait for it......
It
All
Comes
Back
To
The
Shack
I smell varmint poontang.
[say it with me now] [just like Karl]
And the only good varmint poontang
Is dead varmint poontang
[Click to View YouTube Video]
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Carl Spackler: License to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations. Man, free to kill gophers at will. To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever. They're like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that's all she wrote.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 17, 2015 - 10:30am PT
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Probably the best way is to get them more interested in something other than your garden, for example, a hobby such as photography.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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May 17, 2015 - 11:38am PT
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After Heidi whips up a batch of rockchuck stew for the City of Rocks get-together, everyone will see the light. Please remember, one of the iron-clad rules of Idaho gourmet wild food dinning is:
Rockchuck is never served with Ripple.
Rockchuck Stew
1 rockchuck
2 onions, sliced
1/2 cup celery, sliced
Flour
Vinegar and water
Salt and pepper
Cloves
Clean rockchuck; remove glands; cut into serving pieces. Soak overnight in a solution of equal parts of water and vinegar with addition of one sliced onion and a little salt. Drain, wash, and wipe. Parboil 20 minutes, drain, and cover with fresh boiling water. Add one sliced onion, celery, a few cloves, and salt and pepper to taste. Cook until tender; thicken gravy with flour.
Then of course there is the Mongolian marmot recipe:
From the pages of High Country News
https://www.hcn.org/issues/361/17432
Vodka is key to any Mongolian barbecue. It is consumed at every step so that by the time you get around to eating your marmot, the actual taste is not so much of an issue. And what does marmot taste like? One Web source says "beefy." "Like wild duck," insists another. Liars, we think. "It tastes like rodent," Lerner says.
So heat up some smooth round river rocks in your barbecue, and just follow these simple steps:
1) Go find some marmots. Each one will feed three to five people.
2) Behead the marmot.
3) You'll want vodka for this step. Reach your hand into the neck cavity and pull out the guts. Rub the inside with salt. Or what the hell ... paprika or cumin or curry or bay leaves, too.
4) When the rocks are glowing orange, drop them into your marmot, poking smaller rocks into the legs. Then seal up the neck.
5) Get a blowtorch, the kind you use to sweat pipes while soldering, and start burning the hair off your marmot. Yeah, you'll want vodka for this, too.
And there you have it! Marmots inflate as they cook - "It can get as big as a basketball with these four little legs sticking out," Lerner says, and might even explode right in your lap. Plus, the cooking time is a mystery. Considering the vodka Lerner consumed in the process, we won't ask her. The Web site e-Mongolia says 90 minutes, which seems long. So I guess you're on your own. You could poke your marmot "until the juices run clear," or get a meat thermometer if you're a pansy.
This is, after all, a meal of the Great Khan. Rrrrrr!
As soon as the marmot is done, whenever that is, open the neck and pour out the soup into cups. Ha, don't you wish now you had tossed in some onion and garlic and even carrots?
At your holiday table, dig out the hot, greasy rocks and pass them around first, Lerner says. Mongolians believe rubbing the hot grease on their hands and arms is good for the skin, and this step is a social emollient as well.
Cut up the marmot and pass it around.
The blowtorch part:
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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May 17, 2015 - 11:54am PT
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you kill all the Mormons, they'll lock you up and throw away the key.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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May 17, 2015 - 12:19pm PT
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LOL! Damn that is funny, Fritz.
The addition of cloves in your recipe is used incorrectly. They should be chewed right before you eat so that your taste buds are "prepped" for the goods. That way, the rotten teeth(all three of them) are numbed up and the hot food doesn't make them ache all night.
Still Lol.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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May 17, 2015 - 12:23pm PT
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A new Hilarity thread... lol...
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - May 17, 2015 - 12:34pm PT
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Two years ago Angela and I were in the mountains above Chengdu, China. Our Tibetan cook smiling informed us that he had caught and cooked a "Snowpig." Mmmmm pig, can't be too bad. The small bones should have been a giveaway, the shoe leather toughness definetly was....this meat did not come from the pig family.
Turns out that Snowpig is a local name for the Himalayan Marmot which very closely resembles the ones that Fritz is slowly bringing to endangered species status.
I'm happy to see that there are recipies that bring them up to gourmet status....can't wait to get my remaining teeth into one.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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May 17, 2015 - 12:45pm PT
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This one was pretty tasty
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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May 17, 2015 - 12:56pm PT
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Mr. Grossman and I had a good laugh about talk of road-kill stew on the COR thread. You guys had him scared off at one point. He still isn't sure if you guys were kidding or not. Lol.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 17, 2015 - 08:26pm PT
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In the Pamirs the marmots are not only garden friendly they're dinner friendly.
I skipped dinner that day.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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May 17, 2015 - 08:37pm PT
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Wayno! Re your post:
Mr. Grossman and I had a good laugh about talk of road-kill stew on the COR thread. You guys had him scared off at one point. He still isn't sure if you guys were kidding or not. Lol.
What's not to like about roast rockchuck?
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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May 29, 2015 - 07:57pm PT
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Off Topic Marmot sez NOOOOOOOOOooooooooo!!!!
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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May 29, 2015 - 09:10pm PT
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Woody ST's theory was that the real reason for Norman Clyde's falling out with the Sierra Club was that the 44 cal revolver produced rockchucks for the frying pan when the fishing was bad.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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May 29, 2015 - 09:27pm PT
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Rockchucks taste: "just like chicken."
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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May 30, 2015 - 04:11am PT
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Jim,
You initiated a very funny thread. Thanks!
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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We have not enjoyed nearly as many Yellow Bellied Marmots, aka Rockchucks as last year, when I shot 27 on our five-acre Ranchette. I'm up to 7 so far this year, but the one I made garden friendly today went out in style.
He had been hanging out with our Inukshuks on our 30' basalt cliff & sheltering in a deep hole near the top of the cliff. The rock is covered with marmot droppings & smells like marmot pee, so his passing is not regretted at all.
But he's been rightfully wary of me, and in our 10 or so encounters, when I have been packing a rifle, he has never stopped running long enough to give me a decent shot. This morning I saw him sunning himself adjacent to our northern-most Inukshuk, Herman.
I managed to sneak to about 200' of him, but only had the top part of him in view for a shot with my 22. I shot & saw him jump down, briefly hop around and then he dissapeared from view. When I walked up to where he had been, I noticed a lead bullet splash on Herman's basalt knee & no adjacent rockchuck body.
I decided my shot had been a near miss that maybe splattered the rockchuck with a little lead & rock.
However late afternoon, I was looking for asparagus under the cliff & found his body. I had made a heart or lung shot & in the process of dying he had fallen off our cliff at it's highest point.
He looked natural & he has now been buried with full rockchuck honors.
Rockchuck droppings at top of cliff.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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T Hocking! The yellow bellied Marmot, aka rockchunk death is all my fault.
Guess, I'm living up to my Idaho killer background.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, BJ... love that PARK for the marmot... :)
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hossjulia
Trad climber
Carson City, NV
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lol, With all due respect, I think that might be a Neebee version of "F*#k you guys."
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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This dude hung out with us for lunch on Matthes Crest... 2008.
He wouldn't eat carrots.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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He wouldn't eat carrots.
Cause you didn't get orgasmic ones at Whole Paycheck.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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^^^ Maybe, but I'm 99% sure they would have been organic if not orgasmic.
Edit: Maybe the problem is I bit it off and he didn't like the taste of my spit?
He was polite enough to take our picture though:
Maybe he lost his appetite because of my shirt?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Snafflehound is a term used to describe any of various pestiferous rodents that inhabit the alpine zone.
Snafflehounds are notorious for gnawing on gear left at the base of an alpine climb; primarily boots because of the sodium left by the wearer's sweat, as well as backpacks to get at any food left inside.
Numerous cases have also been reported of snafflehounds gnawing holes in sleeping bags while climbers slept inside them.
They suck because they like to gnaw the brake lines and other rubbery parts of the undercarriage of vehicles parked at some trailheads (Mineral King, for one).
The term may have been first popularized by Fred Beckey. The eponymous "Snafflehound Spire" is in The Bugaboos, of course, and a "Snafflehound Ledge" is on the Beckey-Davis Route of Prusik Peak in The Enchantments.
They LOOK so damn friendly, but they are really an alpine guerilla species, to me.
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couchmaster
climber
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I've never eaten Rock chuck/Marmot. Heading to Fritz's house to check it out. Is it "fair trade free range" Fritz? What was the Marmots name?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Not sure OT Marmot would approve of this...
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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I seem to remember that sometime in the 70s Ranger Tim Setnika walked into the rescue team site at Soda Springs in Tuolumne Meadows and caught 'Animal' Art Hanan barbecuing marmots on sticks over an open fire. As I recall, he was not charged however. No one wanted to get on Hanan's bad side, even the rangers.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Shetville , North of Los Angeles
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Like the guy that got caught trying to steal Art's car stereo...?
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Not sure OT Marmot would approve of this...
Oh, he doesn't. This whole thread is making him conspire with the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog....ye have been warned....
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Like the guy that got caught trying to steal Art's car stereo...?
Unhealthy life choice!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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The Hoary Marmot (Marmota caligata) is the largest North American ground squirrel and is often nicknamed "the whistler" for its high-pitched warning issued to alert other members of the colony to possible danger. The animals are sometimes called "whistle pigs".
Whistler, British Columbia, originally London Mountain because of its heavy fogs and rain, was renamed for these animals to help make it more marketable as a resort.
The closest relatives of the species are the yellow-bellied, Olympic, and Vancouver Island marmots, although the exact relationships are unclear.
http://www.whistlepigkorean.com/
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Easy, Vegas, don't shoot the messenger - I didn't buy none!
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