From: "Kevin Brooks"

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I used parachute cord to do that in the Great Smoky Mountain NP--and woke up
the next morning to find that field mice had shimmied up the tree, down the
cord, and into our food supply. Can't win for losin' sometimes.

Brooks




I once(only once) left my boots outside my tent and woke to the sound of a
rodent eating the leather.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired