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[at-l] Sticky fingers....



At 05:32 AM 2/1/02 -0500, ARTCLOUTMN@aol.com wrote:
><< Booby trap your tents and packs.  (Not dangerously, of course.)
>Mouse traps, baggies of yucky stuff, moldy socks, etc.
>Take your least favorite stuff and make it really unpleasant
>for whoever fools with it. >>
>
>Reminds me of a story my uncle Webby told me.

One of the tales of the AT is the thru-hiker who caught a rattler, collared 
him with a bit of cord and fastened him to the tree he left his pack 
against while he went to town.  The pack was untouched when he came back to 
turn the rattler loose and hike on.

sAunTerer