These things are vicious!

[Goathead]

Awwwwwwww... He brought you flowers.:loveya:

[lenidog]

1. What kind of free roaming rodent is it?

[Goathead]

2. It's a Pika

You find them up in the Rocky Mountains. They are related to rabbits. Are rabbits rodents? I don't know.

[lenidog]

3. I think they are but I wouldn't quote me on that because

I never actually looked and I am working off of a fuzzy memory from an old Bugs Bunny cartoon.;)

[Goathead]

5. My love of classical music and opera

comes from watching Bugs.

[lenidog]

8. I think Bugs had that effect on many a person and the world is a better

place for it. ;)

[China_cat]

11. Have you protested the NEW

Bugs Bunny for the 21st century yet?

It's hideous what WB has done.

[jpgray]

4. Pikas are awesome

We only go backpacking in the summer there, but you can still hear them chirping their asses off in the talus.

[Goathead]

7. Sweet! Where abouts? I used to live in Colorado.

That is one word I thought I'd never see in a thread on DU. "Talus" I am an avid backpacker too.:hi:

[jpgray]

9. We did five days in the Weminuche last Summer

We hung out in Ouray two years ago and climbed Sneffels, Umcompahgre, and Hayden among others. Our other big trips were to the Bob Marshall Wilderness and to Grand Teton National Park--and we've done all sorts of fucking around in the Boundary Waters at my home of MN. Cool to see another backpacker around. :hi:

[Goathead]

12. That is so sweet!

I worked for then Forest Service in Sawatch Range. I've climbed a lot of 14ers in that range. Also, Humboldt in the Sangre de Christos and Longs. Longs was my favorite, that is a true mountaineer's mountain. My GF and have climbed Wheeler in NV, Mt Whitney, South Sister in Oregon and Saint Helens. Are you trying to climb all the 14ers. My goal is to climb Mt. Rainier, but not for a while. Also would like to climb in New Zealand, Mexico, So. America and Africa.

[lenidog]

6. My mistake they are not rodents though earlier in the century

their family was classified as a superfamily in the Order of Rodents.

[Tom Kitten]

10. correct

rabbit, hares, and pikas used to be considered rodents but now they have their own order, the lagomorphs...

That pika is a cute little critter, though...