Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernon Happy Holidays Everyone Set here w/ comments: http://picasaweb.google.com/yosemite.chick.on/VernonXmas Awesome trip. Just awesome. But what is new?http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30771#msg-30771Tue, 21 May 2013 23:32:41 -0700 Phorum 5.2.10 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30993#msg-30993 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30993#msg-30993 rroland Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionTue, 04 Jan 2011 14:47:33 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30963#msg-30963 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30963#msg-30963
:chickon2:]]> chick-on Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionMon, 03 Jan 2011 17:28:21 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30920#msg-30920 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30920#msg-30920Thanks again for the great Xmas present!

Sharon
Oakland]]> sclippi Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionSun, 02 Jan 2011 00:06:52 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30839#msg-30839 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30839#msg-30839
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Bee
Lookie at da pretty bird in the pretty snow! (other guy is kinda goofy lookin')

Where's the chicky-tracks?

Be nice to Larry. He got restraining orda for xmas.

Isn't there a song "my feet no touch the ground" ?

Singed,
Marmot Fishing in America :chickon2: (aka The Blue Robin)]]> chick-on Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionWed, 29 Dec 2010 21:48:16 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30827#msg-30827 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30827#msg-30827
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Bee
...Yosemite's Most Endangered Species: Yosemite :chickon2:



We are eternally grateful to the cooks on the early Sierra Club High Trip outings for the significant achievement of removing most of the "pink locusts" from the backcountry environment.
(Historically Yours)
The Marmots]]> szalkowski Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionWed, 29 Dec 2010 10:45:40 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30826#msg-30826 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30826#msg-30826
Where's the chicky-tracks?]]> Bee Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionWed, 29 Dec 2010 10:10:36 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30825#msg-30825 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30825#msg-30825
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chick-on
Google no find....


It defeats the whole purpose of sending the chickens there if they can figure out where they are after being released from the postal package.
(Don'tBelieveInAirHoles-ly Yours)
The Marmots

You Sir, Marmot-man are officially on notice for hassling Yosemite's Most Endangered Species: Yosemite :chickon2:

Any further incusions will result in a citation (eeek will design a nice one :wink: and possible incarceration! (imagine The Beaks behind bars!!)]]> Bee Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionWed, 29 Dec 2010 10:09:22 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30822#msg-30822 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30822#msg-30822
Eye may be mainstream... but ... "I'm out der" :wink:

Singed,
Trout Fishing in America :chickon2:

(for da records... anyone out der...
don't take any of this serious... or as a slight or anything...
it's all in good fun... )]]> chick-on Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionWed, 29 Dec 2010 08:40:19 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30819#msg-30819 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30819#msg-30819
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chick-on
Google no find....


It defeats the whole purpose of sending the chickens there if they can figure out where they are after being released from the postal package.
(Don'tBelieveInAirHoles-ly Yours)
The Marmots



P.S. See, for example, the chapter titled "The Shipping of Trout Fishing In America Shorty to Nelson Algren" in the book "Trout Fishing In America" by Richard Brautigan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trout_Fishing_in_America

]]> szalkowski Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionTue, 28 Dec 2010 22:55:19 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30817#msg-30817 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30817#msg-30817
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chick-on
Google no find....


It defeats the whole purpose of sending the chickens there if they can figure out where they are after being released from the postal package.
(Don'tBelieveInAirHoles-ly Yours)
The Marmots]]> szalkowski Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionTue, 28 Dec 2010 21:51:34 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30816#msg-30816 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30816#msg-30816
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ttilley
A few years ago, in June...your pictures make me want to go in the winter sometime, though this year I have Kibbie Lake and Lassen on my snow camping list.

Posty something if/when you go to Kibbie. Went der with The Old Dude many moons ago in Feb I think.... and didn't take camera back then...
Hike in from the dam to Kibbie is a good one.. Prolly gonna go there next xmas time...]]> chick-on Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionTue, 28 Dec 2010 20:30:15 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30815#msg-30815 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30815#msg-30815
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Anywho, if you figure what da heck Marmut Guy means... lemme know...


T.W.I.M.C.,
An obscure lake in Iceland to which The Marmots send invasive, non-native species (i.e., chickens) found wandering in the backcountry:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=64.560388,-18.158855&num=1&t=h&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=23.875,57.630033&ie=UTF8&ll=64.560241,-18.15834&spn=0.03215,0.108318&z=13
[The clerks at the Tuolumne Meadows Post Office should be quite familiar with it.]

Google no find... so thought you were making stuff up again...]]> chick-on Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionTue, 28 Dec 2010 20:26:31 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30813#msg-30813 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30813#msg-30813
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I kind of miss the bears before the canisters were required.
I saw two bears on my first day out of the Mono Meadow trailhead this past July 4 weekend, after seeing one the day before near Crane Flat on my drive into the park. They seemed to be doing their own thing, as I've previously seen in the Trinity Alps, instead of being Sierra Camp Raiders (and similar to you I've never lost food to a bear). I thought that was pretty cool, and hope for more such sightings in the future. I love seeing bears.]]> ttilley Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionTue, 28 Dec 2010 19:37:35 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30812#msg-30812 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30812#msg-30812
Awesome pictures - thanks for posting]]> apeman45 Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionTue, 28 Dec 2010 18:59:37 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30811#msg-30811 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30811#msg-30811 ttilley Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionTue, 28 Dec 2010 18:27:36 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30808#msg-30808 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30808#msg-30808
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chick-on
Anywho, if you figure what da heck Marmut Guy means... lemme know...


T.W.I.M.C.,
An obscure lake in Iceland to which The Marmots send invasive, non-native species (i.e., chickens) found wandering in the backcountry:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=64.560388,-18.158855&num=1&t=h&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=23.875,57.630033&ie=UTF8&ll=64.560241,-18.15834&spn=0.03215,0.108318&z=13
[The clerks at the Tuolumne Meadows Post Office should be quite familiar with it.]]]> szalkowski Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionTue, 28 Dec 2010 16:35:38 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30807#msg-30807 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30807#msg-30807
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Any of you turkeys been to Vernon?

Is it like Table Lake?

Nothing is as nice as Table Lake.]]> chick-on Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionTue, 28 Dec 2010 16:08:08 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30806#msg-30806 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30806#msg-30806They quit dumping the problem bears there many years ago. They found the bears would just wander
back to wherest they came from. (i.e. once a valley bear... always a valley bear) This turned out
to just put them into greater danger since now they had to play frogger to get back too.
There's some habituated bears around Laurel and Vernon still... but nothing like before.. that's for sure...
Back in the day (har har) they would also just walk around your site when you were sleeping
and knock over your bear can ... seeing if you were one of "those" humans.
My guess is that about 1/2 of the bears I've seen going to Vernon or over Moraine have boogied when
they heard me... so it's prolly getting better.
Rancheria had the same issue you mention ... bears snagging people packs, being very aggressive...
they had to close it for a while and do some serious reconditioning... I think about 3 years ago...
Anywho, if you figure what da heck Marmut Guy means... lemme know...
Toodles,
:chickon2:]]> chick-on Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionTue, 28 Dec 2010 16:07:20 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30802#msg-30802 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30802#msg-30802 apeman45 Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionTue, 28 Dec 2010 13:43:22 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30799#msg-30799 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30799#msg-30799
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Any of you turkeys been to Vernon?

Is it like Table Lake?


It's more like Hágönglón.]]> szalkowski Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionTue, 28 Dec 2010 13:22:34 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30796#msg-30796 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30796#msg-30796
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Any of you turkeys been to Vernon?

Is it like Table Lake?]]> eeek Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionTue, 28 Dec 2010 12:24:49 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30794#msg-30794 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30794#msg-30794
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Too far. Too high.
Gonna smack u up

]]> chick-on Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionTue, 28 Dec 2010 09:55:51 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30793#msg-30793 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30793#msg-30793 mrcondron Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionTue, 28 Dec 2010 09:38:24 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30792#msg-30792 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30792#msg-30792 chick-on Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionTue, 28 Dec 2010 09:15:40 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30785#msg-30785 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30785#msg-307851/2 hour later Chick-on and Larry are singing "Marmuts roasting on an open fire".

The Other Tom : thanks. Chick-on flew on top of the tree too... :wink:
also, if you look at the photos of the hammock you can see a Jacks R Better underblanket.

Couple of other notes:
- we hiked in the same clothes we hiked in in mid-July... you just put on puffy jackets when u stop
- had to get out of the tent and shovel snow in the middle of the night Sat. to clear out round the tent
- if you think snow shoeing is easy... I uploaded some videos of GW busting trail... here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/yosemitechickon

Have fun]]> bill-e-g Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionMon, 27 Dec 2010 21:24:01 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30778#msg-30778 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30778#msg-30778Larry Begins Accumulating Ingredients For A Cold Chicken Sandwich:

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]]> szalkowski Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionMon, 27 Dec 2010 18:17:55 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30776#msg-30776 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30776#msg-30776 The Other Tom Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionMon, 27 Dec 2010 17:37:39 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30772#msg-30772 Re: Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30772#msg-30772
http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/?Page=3]]> eeek Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionMon, 27 Dec 2010 13:22:44 -0800 http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30771#msg-30771 Xmas with Chick-on at Lake Vernonhttp://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30771,30771#msg-30771


Set here w/ comments:
http://picasaweb.google.com/yosemite.chick.on/VernonXmas

Awesome trip. Just awesome. But what is new?]]> bill-e-g Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & DiscussionMon, 27 Dec 2010 13:20:18 -0800