[pct-l] TP or noTP issue

[Edward Anderson]

Kangaroo Spring.  At first I was delighted at how friendly the deer were.  Then 
I realized why. Yes, it was the salt. A hiker camped nearby warned me that 
anything with even the slightest amount of salt on it would be licked and 
possibly chewed. That is the only place where I had to end up hanging everything 
from trees - and not from bears.  I was afraid the deer might damage my tack 
while I slept. My saddle pad would be a special target. 


MendoRider




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From: Scott Herriott <yetifan at yahoo.com>
To: pct-l at backcountry.net
Sent: Sat, November 20, 2010 7:25:59 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] TP or noTP issue

Brick wrote:

<There is so little naturally occurring salt around Marble Mountain,
that the deer there will go to great lengths to get anything salty,
including coming very close to camp to try to carry off your
shirts/socks whatever.>

   In '05 when I was videotaping Patch, Zip and a few others in Northern Oregon 
for "Still Walking" they told me that while they were at Kangaroo Spring (just 
north of Seiad Valley) they awoke to a deer licking one of their sleeping bags 
in the middle of the night. They tried to shoo it away. Nada. Starting tossing 
pebbles. Zip. One of them said one guy threw a pretty big rock and hit the deer. 
Yawn. When they awoke in the morning one of Patch's poles was missing. He found 
it quite a bits away covered in what he assumed was loads o' deer saliva.     
About a week later I'm interviewing a guy at Ollalie Lake (I had been heading 
south from Cascade Locks). He tells me about a strange deer encounter at 
Kangaroo Spring. When he awoke in the morning both poles were missing. He only 
found one. Hence the birth of his trail name..."Buck Larceny".


Squatch
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