Re: minearl king marmots ?!?!
Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:56 pm
I just got out of this area without any such problems. It is a subject that recurs while one is on the trail especially in the home stretch.The interesting thing to me was that where I parked for 4 nights (Mosquito Lakes trailhead) directly across the river from the pack station, all cars including mine left their hoods up as the precaution. I only saw one car with fencing around the base. On the other hand cars parked at the lot for the Sawtooth Pass trailhead all had hoods closed while most were enclosed with fencing. Keep in mind that I was gone for the duration and I am unaware of whether any visitors had problems with the marmots nor what protection might have been used while I was gone. I will say though that before I settled into the Mosquito lot I was parked at the Sawtooth lot long enough to see a hiker leave his car unprotected and as soon as he was on his way a marmot scooted across the lot and found his way to the underside of this vehicle, all within minutes. Witnesses did scoot her away but you get the idea.