[at-l] Mice break-ins (was Re: Hiker Hints for 02'ers)

[dfaddleton@mindspring.com (David)]

One nite camping on the north ear of Wayah Bald, no where near a shelter, a
mouse or some other criiter like one caught a wiff of my
Riiiiiiicooooooolaaaaaa . . . As usual, I was in my hammock and my pack near
my head on the ground. The Riiiiiiicooooooolaaaaaa was in the little outside
net pocket in my pack in a zip lock. I swatted the critter away until I fell
asleep. I dreamed about couging, yoddeling mice. In the morning there was a
hole in the netted pocket and in the ziplock, a wrapper on the ground, and
about a foot away a nibbled Riiiiiiicooooooolaaaaaa . . . After all that
work and the mouse didn't even WANT the Riiiiiiicooooooolaaaaaa . . . .

> Once when I stopped for a snack at Angels' Rest, I had a mice make sneak
> raids on my pack and goodies, in board daylight.
>
> Again a picnic area and it was late in the season.  So, I expect those
which
> had come to depend on picnic scraps were more than a little hungry.
> >                              If they are hungry and curious, and you
have
> > anything inside that smells good to them, sometimes mice will eat a hole
> > into a tent, too