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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 4, 2017 - 11:29am PT
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The insect thread got me thinking. There are a lot of talented photographers on this forum as the multitude of insect photos on the other thread so clearly show. Is anybody pointing their lenses at amphibians?
Here's mine. Cheers ya'll!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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amphibian "a cold-blooded vertebrate animal of a class that comprises the frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders. They are distinguished by having an aquatic gill-breathing larval stage followed (typically) by a terrestrial lung-breathing adult stage."
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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reading comprehension is HARD ... and since i couldn't find a horn dog thread
never thought to ask about his upbringing
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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wall frog, getting set for the dyno
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nice shots!
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 4, 2017 - 12:56pm PT
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Nice. Cool salamanders or newts, not sure. I once saw a frog a good 700 feet up the Zodiac, just pasted on the wall, chillin at the belay. Made me wonder if it was born up there. Any thoughts?
Edit: ^^^^^^Reilly, is that newt comment a Lonesome Dove reference?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Froggies in a small side creek of upper Bright Angel Creek, GC.
"Mr Ranger, he leaped onto my shoe without any encouragement on my part!"
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Is anybody pointing their lenses at amphibians?
Lenses?!!
We don't need....
But nice to see response #2 from the (former) Ahwahnee.
I've previously posted a tree frog on my climbing shoe, so this will have to do for now.
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Greg Barnes
climber
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Here's a stubborn toad who flatly refused to move out of the trail on a night ride. Even after my cell phone photo (taken at a whopping 5 or 6 inches) it just sat there as I walked my bike around it.
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splitclimber
climber
Sonoma County
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I get to work with these cute guys
California Tiger Salamander
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 4, 2017 - 06:00pm PT
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Growing up in the sticks of Virginia I would hear stories of Hellbenders. I think my shop teacher was the first to mention them. Apparently they are salamanders as long as an arm. Never saw one, personally.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellbender
Wild stuff.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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If you pick up a salamander and carry it to the next stream over, can it, and will it, find it's way back?
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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The places I've lived and climbed haven't been overrun with frogs, or other amphibians, but I did meet a couple on a particularly wet day (one of many in a particularly wet year) a while back.
For all I know, he might be a toad. Or he might be a she. As I said, amphibians haven't played much of a role in my life story. But this guy was willing to sit still while I got my camera close.
Full story of that wet day is here: http://www.supertopo.com/tr/Its-all-Lockers-fault-a-TR-sort-of/t421n.html
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 5, 2017 - 08:22am PT
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Get a load of them feet!
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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On our way into the Enchantments in the early 80s, Bryan Burdo pointed out to me a frog with an adaptation for mating in fast-flowing alpine streams.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailed_frog
Further along the trail:
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 26, 2017 - 11:30pm PT
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Chimney climbing! And moth catching.
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L
climber
Hip deep in the slipstream of Life...
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Aug 29, 2017 - 08:26pm PT
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Floppy.
Continuously rescued from the chlorinated death-pool known as our "hot tub".
He lived under the pool cover for two winters and in the water feature all the other seasons.
I found him at the bottom of the pool one winter evening...
It was odd how sad that discovery made me.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Aug 30, 2017 - 06:48am PT
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I see a self-satisfied superiority in Floppy's regard. Handsome frog.
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