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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sully- who wrote (81681)	9/27/2010 8:43:06 PM
From: ManyMoose	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

OK, here goes: please tell us why you've been sleeping, "on the floor with a defensive perimeter of mouse traps" In 1963 I was a fire guard at Elk Summit Guard Station, which used to be a Ranger Station in the early 20th century. If you've seen the movie "Hole In The Sky" with Sam Elliot playing Bill Bell, Elk Summit is featured in it -- but a stand-in played the part. (The REAL Elk Summit is much cooler than the stand-in, I assure you. Bill Bell was a real person. I did not know him, but I know somebody who knew and trapped with him, and also worked Forest Service jobs together. By the way, I recommend the movie. It's based on a story by Norman Maclean, who wrote "A River Runs Through It" and also spent several summers at Elk Summit when he was a teen aged employee of the Forest Service.) My bunk in 1963 was on the second floor, accessible by a steep flight of rough sawn stairs. The floors up there still have the marks left by caulked boots of the early residents of the cabin. One night as I slept a mouse ran across my face and woke me up. So a week ago Saturday when I arrived at "The Summit" I went back to my old bunk space. There was tell-tale sign of mouse activity on the floor around the chimney which went up through the floor to the ceiling. I didn't want to use the steel bunk beds because of my back problem, so I took down a mattress from one of the wires where they were hanging, and laid it out on the floor. Then I baited some mouse traps with peanut butter and put them in likely places around my mattress. I did not catch a single mouse the three nights I was there, and slept well all three nights. I did, however, see a wolf out the kitchen window. They are cleaning up on the elk population, and the hunter camps are sparsely populated. Only about half of the camp sites are in use. I saw one bull elk that one fellow killed. Elk are money animals, wolves aren't. Some people do not care about that, but others do. I may post pictures on my Facebook page when I have a chance, including a shot of the tell-tale mouse activity.