[at-l] Thru-hike prep/schools/tents

[Frank Looper]

Happened to me at Bly Gap. Chewed in, freaked out when I woke up. I
unzipped the door and shooshed him out.

P.S. Today worse than yesterday. Shaking from it. gonna take an Ambien
and try to sleep the day away. :-)

On 10/28/09, rockdancer97 at comcast.net <rockdancer97 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Huh! Are you talking about me?
>
> Well, if not, this same thing has happened to me twice in 12 years of AT
> hiking, both times in cold weather when the mice are looking for someplace
> warm and they can feel the warmth they want through the tent body. One was
> at Walnut Mtn shelter just a few miles from Hot Springs, NC, the other event
> happened as I neared Katahdin in October of '97. Both times I woke up in the
> dark with something on my chest, freaked when I turned on the light and then
> chased it around the tent because the darn things can't find the hole they
> made to get in!
>
> During this year's hike I awoke one cold morning and found a rather large
> snake snuggled up to me on the outside of the tent fabric, just at the door.
> It looked so happy to have a little warm micro-climate going for it that I
> didn't shoosh it away. Sometime during breakfast it slowly moved off on its
> own.
>
> --RockDancer
>
>>A mouse chewed it's way into my friend's tent and in the enclosed
>> environment couldn't get out fast enough when my >friend woke up and went
>> after it with his boot. LOL Keep in mind, that only happened once, to one
>> hiker, during my >entire thruhike.
>
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