Buzzed (Again) By Condors at Pinnacles

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Crimpergirl

Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
Jan 13, 2014 - 06:31pm PT
Cool! You should share those photos on the "Birds" thread here.
mtnyoung

Trad climber
Twain Harte, California
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 13, 2014 - 06:36pm PT
When I started this thread I'd forgotten that I posted other condor footage to this site a few years ago. My wife had videoed condors circling us and then made a really cool, short movie of it (bonus points to anyone who can identify the name of the song she used for the background music).

Here's a link to that video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2rWXLUnocQ
Mungeclimber

Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
Jan 13, 2014 - 06:57pm PT
exactly Fortmental!

lol
mtnyoung

Trad climber
Twain Harte, California
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 13, 2014 - 07:29pm PT

Cool! You should share those photos on the "Birds" thread here.

I should have thought of that.
bhilden

Trad climber
Mountain View, CA/Boulder, CO
Jan 13, 2014 - 07:39pm PT
Condor #76 and I spent about 30 minutes together 15' from each other on top of the Sponge last week. Not sure who won the 'blinking' contest.
HighTraverse

Trad climber
Bay Area
Jan 17, 2014 - 04:34pm PT
Great shots!

January 3 years ago, atop the Sponge, having a snack with two friends. Three Condors came straight at us, in formation, from the deep canyon to the west. Eye to eye, about 30 feet left to go and they split formation around us and soared up to their eyrie on the crag across the trail.

A bit later we saw 8 or so soaring above the High Peaks trail. (verified by binoculars)

Later in the afternoon, climbing the SE routes on the Flatiron, two roped teams. I'm belaying my second. When he gets about 20 feet off the ground, two Condors fly directly beneath him. At the belay I told him about it. He laughed. They'd been sitting about 30 feet away on the slope below the south "buttress" of the Flatiron watching him as he'd belayed me.

Durned Endangered Species Act. Them Pinns Condors think they own the place.
L

climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
Jan 17, 2014 - 04:42pm PT
"(bonus points to anyone who can identify the name of the song she used for the background music)"

Really cool video--and clever of her to use El Condor Pasa (one of my favs) as the soundtrack.
matty

Trad climber
under the sea
Jan 17, 2014 - 06:13pm PT
^^^Knott a condor! go post in the birds thread =]


On topic...They have really, really big feathers (this one is almost 30 inches)

matty

Trad climber
under the sea
Jan 17, 2014 - 06:17pm PT
Great documentary on Condors: http://www.thecondorsshadow.com/


I saw it on PBS
matty

Trad climber
under the sea
Jan 17, 2014 - 06:18pm PT
skamoto

Mountain climber
coalinga ca
Jan 17, 2014 - 06:25pm PT
thats pretty sweet, I have yet to see a condor in real life and I go to the pinnacles alot. BTW brad young your guide book for the pinns is by far the best guide book i own to date. its super easy to follow and i love the history in the beg of the book.
ThomasKeefer

Trad climber
San Diego
Jan 17, 2014 - 06:30pm PT
I saw one on a hike near Garrapata point. I thought it was pretty close when I first spotted it and it just getting closer and closer until I realized how HUGE it was. By the time it was within a couple hundred feet, I was amazed. Beautiful to see something that big in the air!
matty

Trad climber
under the sea
Jan 17, 2014 - 08:06pm PT
No...chickens taste like condor! Chuck Norris told me so;)

Actually they probably taste like their food. Dead animals.


"Animals... fun to pet better to eat!"
Bluelens

climber
Pasadena, CA
Jan 17, 2014 - 10:21pm PT
Link to Pinnacles NPS condor info.
27 condors wild and free at Pinnacles.

http://www.nps.gov/pinn/naturescience/condors.htm

9 1/2 foot wingspan!

http://www.friendsofcondors.org/during-the-pl
mtnyoung

Trad climber
Twain Harte, California
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 17, 2014 - 10:32pm PT
Skamoto, that was a very high compliment you paid to the guidebook. Thank you very much.
briham89

Big Wall climber
san jose and south lake tahoe, ca
Jan 17, 2014 - 11:03pm PT
Nice shot. Wish I could have been there.
Rob Roy Ramey

Trad climber
Colorado
Jan 18, 2014 - 01:25am PT
Just to keep the history alive, please recall how a rag-tag crew of Yosemite climbers were critical to saving this species (and the peregrine falcon) from extinction:

http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=535204&tn=0#msg542627




L

climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
Jan 18, 2014 - 04:16pm PT
Fantastic history lesson on the saving of the Condors, Rob Roy.

Thank you on so many levels.
bhilden

Trad climber
Mountain View, CA/Boulder, CO
Jan 18, 2014 - 05:32pm PT
Rob Roy,

when you took the egg, did you leave a placebo replacement egg? The reason I ask this is that the NPS staff removed a condor egg at the Pinnacles to look at it and while they were doing the examination, they left a wooden egg in it's place so the mother wouldn't freak out and abandon the nest.
Patrick Sawyer

climber
Originally California now Ireland
Jan 18, 2014 - 06:02pm PT
Let's get one thing straight. The Pinnacles are not rock nor rock climbing. Forget the condors. Cheese-grating 'rock' (when one takes a fall) is not climbing, but some sadistic and masochistic undertaking. Mud with some pebbles in it glued together. But it is a wondrous place.

That said, what a great pic of a condor and masochists.

But the Pinnacles have some good hikes. First time I went I took loads of photos, and then dummy me realized that there was no film in the camera, Mamiya-Sekor 1000DTL (since stolen in a burglary on my flat in Dun Laoghaire).

Okay, the Pinnacles are unique. VERY UNIQUE.

And so are the Condors.

Jaan, Chamonix now? Lucky sod. Best wishes.
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