2-3 years as a kind of a family reunion. All are avid backpackers living in different
parts of the US.
Well during a discussion around dinner one of the brothers starts telling me about a
story of how one day as they were coming back to the tent they noticed some movement
inside the tent. Thinking is was a bear they started to make noise to scare if out
of the tent, suddenly there was a flash from inside the tent and a marmot scurried out
from inside running into and under some rock near the solar toilet at the lake.
When reaching the front of the tent they had noticed that the zipper was left open
and that there had been no damage to the tent itself but the inside of the tent had
been turned upside down. They also notice that there camera had been pulled from
inside the backpack and had ended up towards the tent door. Some how the marmot
had removed the camera and while pulling it and fumbling around with it accidentally
pressed the shutter the flash went off, scaring the animal. The funny part was that
one of the brothers had a picture in his wallet of a brown fuzzy creature, which was
of coarse the marmot, it had taken a self portrait while in the act!
