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originalpmac

Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 4, 2017 - 11:29am PT
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!

Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Aug 4, 2017 - 11:31am PT

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."
hooblie

climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
Aug 4, 2017 - 11:44am PT
reading comprehension is HARD ... and since i couldn't find a horn dog thread
never thought to ask about his upbringing
little Z

Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
Aug 4, 2017 - 11:46am PT
wall frog, getting set for the dyno

Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Aug 4, 2017 - 11:51am PT
StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
Aug 4, 2017 - 11:54am PT
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Aug 4, 2017 - 11:57am PT
Nice shots!

originalpmac

Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 4, 2017 - 12:56pm PT
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?
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Aug 4, 2017 - 02:03pm PT
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!"
MH2

Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
Aug 4, 2017 - 04:45pm PT
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.


Greg Barnes

climber
Aug 4, 2017 - 05:09pm PT
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.

splitclimber

climber
Sonoma County
Aug 4, 2017 - 05:49pm PT
I get to work with these cute guys
California Tiger Salamander


originalpmac

Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 4, 2017 - 06:00pm PT
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.

MH2

Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
Aug 4, 2017 - 07:12pm PT
If you pick up a salamander and carry it to the next stream over, can it, and will it, find it's way back?




Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Aug 4, 2017 - 07:17pm PT
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
originalpmac

Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 5, 2017 - 08:22am PT

Get a load of them feet!
MH2

Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
Aug 5, 2017 - 09:39am PT
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:


originalpmac

Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 26, 2017 - 11:30pm PT

Chimney climbing! And moth catching.
L

climber
Hip deep in the slipstream of Life...
Aug 29, 2017 - 08:26pm PT

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.
MH2

Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
Aug 30, 2017 - 06:48am PT
I see a self-satisfied superiority in Floppy's regard. Handsome frog.
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