There’s a few for sure. The bootpack almost always has goat shit in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by PNWbrit
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There’s a few for sure. The bootpack almost always has goat shit in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by PNWbrit
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Originally Posted by klar
Thread winner. Holy smokes, good stuff Klar.
Edit to add re. bears: I hope that your discomfort also shares brainspace with wonder... at finding in yourself the sort of deeper primal awareness of traveling in the truly wild places of the Earth with other intelligent non-human hunters. Your mind is really active in a way most humans don't experience any more. We'll continue to lose touch with it as the big beasts die off and our survival struggles involve stupid shit like obesity and gun violence.
Soak it up!
Eagle vs Fox vs rabbit
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https://www.king5.com/mobile/article.../281-556884102
here's an adorable baby bear video from GTNP this wk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=rzAQUzfeMoU
good stuff gang with a shout out to klar's recent sitings -bears are ok though they just want to be left alone so making lots of noise will keep them avoiding you. it's the mtn lions that I truly fear- giant ornery cats :eek:
Saw a mountain lion this morning hiking on Mt. Helena. My attempts to obtain photographic evidence failed miserably. I got this shot and another and the only reason I think the lion is in this shot is because the other one has a blank space in that spot. Tried to take a video but the thing didn't start! So when I pushed "stop" after the lion had gone, then of course the phone starts taking video. ARGH.
Anyway, first lion I've seen in the wild. It was only 50 yards away when I first saw it, medium size, no question in my mind what it was. It ran downhill, then cut across below me. I was pretty freaked out about what to do because right then a thunderstorm was starting and I was heading down--toward the cat. So I grabbed a big stick and walked in the pouring rain, through the dark scary lodgepole forest, yelling Hey Kitty. The whole thing got my heart rate going, that is for sure. Here's my lame photo zoomed way in that makes it look like an elk or something, or maybe nothing at all lol:
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Looks like Bigfoot to me.
That pic reminded me of a screen grab of Kedar spooking a bear last summer. I also once took 10 or so pics of air trying to frame a pair of pileated woodpeckers. Oh well.
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Saw about half dozen black bears in the Whistler area last weekend. Got some really good shots of one that was just off the Callaghan Road.
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1748/...340f62dc_b.jpg
And this big boy we saw at the Whistler Golf Club.
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1743/...22d778de_b.jpg
^^Are you on Kauai or what?
nice bigfoot shots everyone! animal season is upon us
I like those artsy rooster shots too
whew my heart is just racing thinking about that situation. like when on a plane that is having issues, these are the times where I'm making all sorts of promises to a god I usually don't believe inQuote:
Originally Posted by yeahman
Why . . .Oh forget it.Quote:
Originally Posted by east or bust
Sierra tree frog. Not the most exciting animal in this thread. I used to see them all the time hiking with my kids but I haven't seen one in at least 20 years so to see one on Mt Lincoln (Sugar Bowl) was exciting. This little guy is about 3/4 in.
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Originally Posted by old goat
Frogs are an indicator of a healthy environment.
You haven't seen one in 20 years huh?
Hmmmm interesting.
^ yeah, as a kid in rural south carolina I remember seeing tons of toads. Very rare to see them now. OTOH the deer here are feakin everywhere and just about tame. Last year one was muchin on my begonias and with me at 30ft was sorta givin me the evil eye. Like "dude. tryin to have lunch over here and you're crowdin me. Fuck off." Haven't had a hosta in 10 years or so. They are increassingly going after flowering plants.
Fucking deer. I can walk right up to them, hit them with a rock, and they'll move a few feet and stare at me.
^^I assume you are talking about mule deer? Whitetails are usually a lot more skittish, at least where I live.
In Helena they kill hundreds of mule deer a year in town. The police do the dirty work. They capture them in cages at night and then taze them to death. The meat is processed by a local butcher and then donated to the food bank. Every year the city commission come up with a number of how many deer they want to "cull" from the local herd, based on how many complaints they've had of deer eating people's gardens, etc. In the last 10 years or so they've managed to get the population under control.
I've seen a couple smashed on the road behind my house--different kind of frog.Quote:
Originally Posted by thebirdhunter
Years ago backpacking in the High Sierra there was a couple spending the summer counting frogs, which were all over the place. Last time I was there--maybe 6 years ago, there were none.
Canary in the coal mine. We're next.
Taze them to death??? Jeezus Christ.
I think so. Some sort of electric shock that kills them quickly. I guess they decided that's the best of the various lethal options. It is not without some local controversy but Helena is a pretty pragmatic place.Quote:
Originally Posted by liv2ski
Holey shit is right. Prolly more likely is the thing they use on cattle. The local mule deer are often fed, so I’m in a way trying to teach these individual deer that people aren’t so great. Anthropomorphize much?
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About a mile from my house, in an area I sometimes trail run.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG_3A4yI1no
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-azIsDFPvc
Ummmm, that's a toad, and they are still dime a dozen.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
On a brighter note, they just released several hundred Yellow legged frog tadpoles into streams in the San Gabriel mts, hoping to bring back the endanger population.
I used to see salamanders all the time and I don't see as many now. Well except the outline of one in the sidewalk where it must have gotten stuck and died then rotted away leaving a salamander shaped voidQuote:
Originally Posted by thebirdhunter
Pour some silicone in dat mold
have i posted this one before?
taken during the Snowmobile hill climb held every spring here in Jackson
If I recall correctly, its name was bob
Woah! Bob's a stud
yea he was way bigger than my little dog lol
seemed happy too, which is odd bc I expected him to be a cranky like other cats
Did you dare try and pet it? [emoji15]
yes and thank you for also seeming reluctant about it tooQuote:
Originally Posted by Self Jupiter
I am around animals a lot and it was out of my comfort zone
It looks like he's contemplating where the individuals in the crowd around him fit into his "fuck, marry, kill list."Quote:
Originally Posted by b-bear
Erpobdella punctata
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somebody rang the dinner bell.Attachment 240176
muktuk again
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"Narwal narwal
rotting in the ocean
causing a commotion
cause it smells like bacon"
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Originally Posted by b-bear
"Fat Bob 172"
Fuck you that's a fkn green tallywhacker leech.Quote:
Originally Posted by bodywhomper
Shit. Back in the day I hit one on my bike bombing off of schlonkers knob in the dusk. Do they still call it that? The little knoll below mt ascension.Quote:
Originally Posted by yeahman
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