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Mighty Hiker
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Vancouver, B.C.
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Jun 28, 2012 - 01:34am PT
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Thank you - that's awesome!
[Click to View YouTube Video]
(Posted a1r31M5JM10 in the "post video" blank - essentially, the identifier.)
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Jun 28, 2012 - 01:55am PT
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That is fugging awesome!!!! A good day, indeed.
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ionlyski
Trad climber
Kalispell, Montana
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Jun 28, 2012 - 02:03am PT
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Chewy, is that you Ben? Wolverine Dan said he ran into you at Sperry and you'd scored the wolverine encounters.
Arne
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Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
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Jun 28, 2012 - 02:05am PT
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fantastic
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Jun 28, 2012 - 08:35am PT
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Wow!
The most bad-ass per pound creature on the planet, wild! TFPU
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argus
Trad climber
Vegas
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Jun 28, 2012 - 09:36am PT
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Cool photos. I saw one about 5 years ago at the top of Mount Jefferson on the Montana-Idaho border. We had skinned to the top and skied down 100' from the summit . We looked over and there was a wolverine 15 yards away or so. We watched it for a couple minute, then determined that might be a little too close and skied away. Definitely a rare treat.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Jun 28, 2012 - 10:03am PT
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What an incredible treat--thanks for sharing!!!!
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Jun 28, 2012 - 11:54am PT
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"He saw the Wolverine" a worthy inscription on any gravestone.
That's luck. Did you buy a lottery ticket when you got back to civilization?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 28, 2012 - 11:59am PT
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The only way it could have been better would have been to see them couple!
I bet that is some rough sex.
BTW, when you're shooting against a bright background put yer camera on
'spot metering'.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Jun 28, 2012 - 01:58pm PT
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I knew that the Cubans would never get them all.
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moacman
Trad climber
Montana
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Jun 28, 2012 - 02:38pm PT
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Was on a ski trip at Lake Louise about 25 years ago and was lucky enough to see one up close, that was the only one I have ever seen...Way cooool...
Stevo
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Chewybacca
Trad climber
Montana, Whitefish
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 12, 2012 - 12:13pm PT
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Thanks for the comments and suggestions everyone. Every time I come to this forum I learn something new.
I've returned to that area several times but all I've seen of the wolverines is foot tracks.
Thanks again.
@Ionlyski- no, I'm not Ben. My name is James but I go by Kelly. Maybe we can make turns on Big Mtn some time.
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tarek
climber
berkeley
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Aug 12, 2012 - 02:05pm PT
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Thanks! A treat indeed.
They look to be in gluttonous condition, nice to see.
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Aug 12, 2012 - 02:47pm PT
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Wow! Those suckers are hard to see. I know a fair number of people in Alaska who have never seen one, and there are a lot up there. I have a wolverine fur parka ruff that I bought from an eskimo hunter. Any self respecting eskimo will only use Wolverine surrounded by wolf fur on a parka.
I have seen only one. I was toiling along up this fairly wide valley a little ways north of the Boreal treeline and saw this wolverine in front of me. We were both wandering around a series of little ponds and on the same course, so I followed it for a while before it took off in a different direction. It stood up once and looked at me, but other than that just slinked along. Their gate is much like a skunk, being a big weasel.
Very cool. You see their distinctive tracks fairly often, but seeing one is a big deal. One wolverine covers an incredible amount of country. I don't know anything about their attributed visciousness, but it couldn't have cared less about me.
There is a great show that you can watch on Netflix about the Wolverines in Glacier. They don't go around things. They will take a direct route right up over a mountain and cover an amazing amount of ground. They mainly scrounge carcasses and crack the bones for marrow. In Alaska, you see a lot of wolf and bear kills, so they have lots to eat.
Trapping one is very difficult. The eskimos hunt them on snow machines. They go up into the mountains in winter pulling big sleds with tents, stoves, a barrel of fuel, and the like. When they come across a fresh track, they unhitch the sled and take off at high speed and run them down.
Not very sportsman like, but that is the way they live up there.
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jaaan
Trad climber
Chamonix, France
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Aug 12, 2012 - 02:55pm PT
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What is a wolverine? How big is it? What's it related to? Sorry about that, Europe doesn't have these animals. Thanks.
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jaaan
Trad climber
Chamonix, France
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Aug 12, 2012 - 03:13pm PT
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Thanks for that Tami.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Aug 12, 2012 - 03:23pm PT
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What is a wolverine?
In addition to what Tami said, a wolverine is something you do not want to be stuck in a small space with.
This one was found in Yoho National Park at the base of a waterfall. It had apperently tried to cross above and been swept over and killed. Now it resides in a visitor center.
Edit to add that there is no known material that those claws cannot dig through. You can wrap your cache in a magic ball of 3-inch thick stainless steel with no door, but it there is something in it that a wolverine wants, it will soon have it.
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Anastasia
climber
InLOVEwithAris.
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Aug 12, 2012 - 03:27pm PT
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That is incredible!!! Awesome! Nicely done!
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