I googled a bit for the snake tales previously posted to RAS, but it also
brings up a lot of other topics.

We tend to skin and cook the rattlesnakes at owl canyon

Hypoxic chippies, hah! Unfortunately, chippies above 5000msl are often
carriers of plague. Wonder if the altitude affects the fleas.

Frank Whiteley

"Bob Korves" bkorves@winfirstDECIMALcom wrote in message
...
We had a pilot at Soar Truckee who was flying a Diamant on a 500K out and
return badge flight. After takeoff he felt something crawling up his pant
leg. After he got up well into oxygen altitudes, the crawling up his leg
subsided, but continued again each time he got lower. Needless to say, he
tried to stay as high as he could! He was able to complete the flight,
but
at the end of the landing rollout he jumped from the cockpit and pulled
down
his pants. A chipmunk ran off into the bushes. He deserved the badge...
-Bob Korves

"Mike Lindsay" wrote in message
news
In article , Chip
Bearden writes
Not just rodents. Many years ago in a 1-26 contest in the U.S., one
poor pilot flew several days barely able to tolerate the smell from a
dead bird somewhere in one wing. I'm not sure how he removed it but I
seem to recall that part of the solution (no pun intended) was to
partially fill the wing with water from the root rib, slosh it around,
then stand the wing up on the tip of the spar and pour it out.

Chip Bearden
ASW 24 "JB"e

I heard a story about someone who felt a tickling sensation on his right
knee at the top of a thermal.
Looking down, he saw a mouse sitting on his knee.
--
Mike Lindsay