> Not only snakes in the cockpit . . . you need to shake out your boots > too. Scorpions like boots. A tip here: Put your boots into a gallon zip lock baggy and stuff them into your sleeping bags bottom end. You'll have warm and varmint free boots the next morning. We don't have crows here in SoCal, but very imperious ravens. They have invaded my cockpit the last three weeks or so and thrown out my cockpit sponge (it not having any food value) so I'm going to buy a cockpit cover this weekend. Don't know if they will be able to invade that or not, but wouldn't second guess the big bastards. Anything with a hole in it, like a trash can, is fair game for them. Speaking of varmints, one time I was camping with my brother and his kids in the Sierras, I kept hearing a chewing and scratching noise outside the tent. Something trying to get in. I'd open the fly, flash the light around,.... nothing. Turned out later that it was my nephew grinding his teeth in his sleep. Damn varmint. -Nick *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Mar 30 2000 - 18:12:31 PST
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