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cavercrew wrote:Not too long ago, we had a young black lab follow us on a typical hike in the land of TAG to do some wet vertical stuff, Alabama, to be somewhat
specific. Mike Hopkins
Doug McCarty wrote:After a ten hour surveying trip in December we came back to a handline climb out of a dome pit and found that a rodent had almost chewed our handline (an old pit rope) to the core just beyond the anchor point--almost as if he was trying to make us fall. In January, we switched types of ropes to a smaller diameter rope, but rather stupidly, because we had never had a chewed rope problem in that area before, we figured the chewed rope was a fluke. It wasn't. When we got back the rope was almost chewed in two--in two places. In February we used webbing instead of rope, and Mr. Rat didn't seem to like it. It's a good thing this wasn't a rappel, or we might have been in big trouble. Here is a link to a picture of January's rope.
http://caves.org/grotto/mongrotto/images/ChewedRope.jpg
DougMc
ian mckenzie wrote:As far as packrats go, they seem to prefer new ropes to older stiff ones, in my experience.
Dan Sullivan wrote:We just tie a cat to the rig point around here.
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