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Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
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Jan 29, 2015 - 10:59pm PT
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I saw the red fox just once near Tioga Pass. Saw mink at Bear Valley lake in northern Yosemite. Forest rangers are very, very rare. Park Rangers in the backcountry are more common, but often stay hidden from tourists until needed.
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Jan 29, 2015 - 11:07pm PT
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saw a red fox in the warehouse gym the other day, killed by a hydrogen peroxide spill in pukeit sound moments later,
how do they taste? kind of in between a spotted owl and the desert tortoise, it's all lunch meat to me,
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Jan 30, 2015 - 12:03am PT
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it's all lunch meat to me,
is that you, Senator?
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Jan 30, 2015 - 08:10am PT
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Gray fox at the Pinns last march
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Jan 30, 2015 - 09:01am PT
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Apparently legal to bow-hunt them as long as yellow arrows are used.
Rare badger found in Red Fox hole outside of Yosemite
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Jan 30, 2015 - 10:03am PT
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This species of Fox is not so rare a sight in Yosemite, and is easily identified by its rather long snout:
and is occasionally spotted free climbing hard bits for me on various El Cap routes:
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Jan 30, 2015 - 10:21am PT
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There's grey foxes in my neighborhood, once in a while I'll see one or two. I'll just sit quietly on the front patio and there they are, out patrolling for an evening meal. The thing that strikes me is how perfectly groomed they are. They must take care of each other to maintain such a coiffure. Beautiful creatures.
These ones are not extremely shy of humans. We're as short walk from the Angeles Nat Forest but there's houses, streets around too.
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melski
Trad climber
bytheriver
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they don;t always cooperate when you try to check the tip of the tail,,,,
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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^^^^ Nice, nice, verry nice, Mike Bolte. ^^^^
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C4/1971
Trad climber
Depends on the day...
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Dave Bircheff and I saw a mating pair of them as we came down from a climb (The Braille Book) on upper Cathedral in the early seventies. The climb was epic with lightning strikes hitting the main wall as we finished the fifth pitch, followed by a rappel as the wall above us took direct hits.
On the descent, that is basically a talus scree these two came out right in front of us....we were blessed. But then we remembered when the ring-tailed cats hung out behind Lewis Memorial...
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Ring-tails are way cool. Once coming down off a big solo in the dark something caught my eye. I turned and saw about 16 pairs of eyes bunched up reflecting my headlamp in the bushes 10m away.
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Thread drift - ringtails can be seen on the rock wall along the side of 140 on many, many nights. And in the daytime, you may notice that there's little piles of ringtail poop all over the wall.
My neighbors have been getting decent gray fox pics on their webcam recently. This is from last night.
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