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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Sep 15, 2009 - 03:36am PT
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I hate meeces to pieces!
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Sebastopol, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 15, 2009 - 04:14am PT
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In 98 I stashed a rope and gear, inlcuding Clif Bars below Mt. Sill. Came back the next week to do the Sill-Tbolt traverse car to car in a day but found the Ratzis had nearly chewed right through the middle of the cord and made quite a mess! Odd thing is, they hardly even touched the Clif Bars; only one was open. We doubled the rope, simul-climbed, and still had a great day.
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aguacaliente
climber
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Sep 15, 2009 - 04:39am PT
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backpacking in SEKI, a deer nosed around our camp at night and somehow got and ate a map. fortunately it was just one of several photocopies among us. best guess is the paper had absorbed salt/sweat from riding in a pocket. but it was like "the dog ate my homework" in real life.
uh, deer are rodents too, right?
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Sebastopol, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 15, 2009 - 01:43pm PT
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This is what it's come to. Adding some hardware to the rack...
My good ol' .22 single shot I got as a kid. If that doesn't work I'll have Miwok call his boys and set up a perimeter.
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mucci
Trad climber
The pitch of Bagalaar above you
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Sep 15, 2009 - 01:59pm PT
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^^^NOW that would be entertaining!
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corniss chopper
Mountain climber
san jose, ca
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Sep 15, 2009 - 02:17pm PT
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Salt is most likely what they are after.
To protect our camp we've wadded up pieces of paper towel
-marble size- soaked with water and totally caked with as much salt as possible. In the morning the dozen we'd made from one paper towel and scattered around were gone. No chew marks on our gear.
Once a marmot would not give up trying to commando into our site to chew our gear. He left us alone after eating 4 salted paper towel wads.
We did not do this inside any National Park.
If the rodents chew your gear is that considered 'feeding animals'
which is prohibited in the park?
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hooblie
climber
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Sep 15, 2009 - 02:47pm PT
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one time i was headed from wyo to leavenworth, wa for picking season in the apples. checked a job service a ways east of
mt st. helens when the gas kitty ran dry. found myself swinging a spikeing mall on the railroad well out of town. payday was to be next week so no sense commuting anywhere. at dawn on sunday, out next to the tracks, the hatch of my scirrocco flew open, my sleeping bag gathered up around my neck and was hauled unceremoniously over the gunnel to the dirt where three armed men the size of paul bunyan towered over me screaming about rock chucks that belonged to them. one big boot was on my chest and four others were cocked and ready to do serious harm. i occasionally gasped enough breath to deny even knowing what a rock chuck was. nothing that they tossed out of my car made a liar out of me and i was directed to
have a nice day. go ahead and speak unkindly about rodents, but i've noticed that some of them do have guardian angels
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Fritz
Trad climber
Hagerman, ID
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Sep 15, 2009 - 10:22pm PT
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One other marmot problem----marking their territory!
3 years back: we did a "old farts trying to recover lost glories" climbing base camp in Idaho Sawtooths. We all had tents (based on past bad experiences).
Day three our younger friend: "the female rope rocket," shows up with her "ultra-light" gear, including a tarp-tent fly that she brags about.
Yep! Day 5, a marmot pees all over her sleeping bag and gear during the day.
I have a photo of the marmot lurking 50 ft. from her tent. Golden-Mantled ground squirrels were also suspects, but I don't think they have that much urine.
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Ray-J
Social climber
east L.A. vato...
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Sep 16, 2009 - 01:49am PT
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Didn't norman clyde just shoot em?
Hahaha!
Sorry...
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Sebastopol, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 16, 2009 - 02:05am PT
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I hear if you hang a few carcasses around camp the others will stay away. hehe.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Sep 16, 2009 - 02:11am PT
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Well, I was afraid I might get lynched or reported to PETA for my story on the prior page but I guess that was paranoia. I can vouch that Jerry's theory is correct for after I applied my alpine hammer they left me alone for the rest of the night.
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Brian Hench
Trad climber
Laguna Beach, CA
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Sep 16, 2009 - 02:16am PT
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There is a product called Bitrex that is put into poisonous household products to make it so that children won't drink them. I think it's generic name is denatonium benzoate. It's one of the more bitter substances known to man.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatonium
Make an alcoholic solution of this and spray it on your gear. Let it dry. See if the snafflehounds nibble on it then.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sep 16, 2009 - 02:27am PT
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What if you just pee on your gear?
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Sep 18, 2009 - 03:48pm PT
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gotta put that in my beer, keep the more human looking snafflehounds from drinking them beers.
Und ya, zer Ratzis need to be taken out back und shot! yavol!
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Idaho, also. Sorta, kinda mostly, Yeah.
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Sep 18, 2009 - 03:58pm PT
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Munge! Get back to work........
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jstan
climber
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Sep 18, 2009 - 05:52pm PT
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BITD when there were real MANLY wall rats, the use of Royal's red hammock was problematic. Somehow you had to wake up out of a deep sleep every once in awhile to flick the rats off any rope left fixed above.
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hooblie
climber
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Sep 18, 2009 - 06:40pm PT
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the GF's garden was being devastated by a bloom in the rabbit census and her cocker was too short legged to catch them, though we awarded e for effort. i noticed her (the dog, eh?) barking at the end of a stack of scraps of pvc sewer pipe where rabbits would reliably seek refuge. so these were placed about the spread along the exercise circuit. it's tough to dislodge a determined meal bracing mightily in a 10' length but the friction coefficient can be over come with the radial forces generated by an overhand chop technique ala trebuchet. rabbits have achieved vertical trajectories yielding treetop views of the pinons.
the galvanizing image from ground control is the bellyside view of the gallop to nowhere other than the point of impact.
whereupon the chase is restarted with way better than even odds
edit: i hearby release scaled down rope rat version to the public domain
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Sebastopol, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 18, 2009 - 06:46pm PT
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^^^Need to see a pic of this!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Sep 18, 2009 - 08:25pm PT
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Nein! Vee vill not be doing verk today mein Kapitän!
prepare for zee photo onslaught zis seevening!
und now, I got to get zee Cocido soup for zee fraulein from zee axis of evil Mexican restaurant...
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jstan
climber
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Sep 18, 2009 - 08:37pm PT
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That's it!
Chris needs to shut this down.
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