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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 20, 2015 - 07:50am PT
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Some of you may have seen this.
http://m.koreus.com/video/wapiti-vs-photographe.html
Beautiful creature, though I have to admit, I love elk meat.
Outside of a close (30 feet across a small cove on Kupreanof Island, SE Alaska) encounter with a grizzly, the only other time I felt "threatened" was in the field (for my zoology thesis studying black bears) when I awoke in the middle of the night (no tent) and there was a bear looking over me in my sleeping bag, I mean easily four feet high on all fours and his/her paw inches from my head. I just froze and sort of slowly pulled the bag over me. It meandered off.
I won't mention rattlesnake encounters as most of us have had those I'd imagine.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Apr 20, 2015 - 08:09am PT
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Dude's lucky that was a baby.
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pc
climber
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Apr 20, 2015 - 08:21am PT
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Yikes. He's a lot calmer that I would have been.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 20, 2015 - 08:53am PT
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I didn't think there were elk in the Great Smoky Mountains.
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labrat
Trad climber
Erik O. Auburn, CA
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Apr 20, 2015 - 12:45pm PT
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Get off my lawn!
And take your gear with you....
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Apr 20, 2015 - 01:00pm PT
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There is a fine line between a cute video and trip to the hospital....
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stunewberry
Trad climber
Spokane, WA
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Apr 20, 2015 - 01:04pm PT
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"All I want is your hat."
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Chewybacca
Trad climber
Kelly Morgan, Whitefish MT
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Apr 20, 2015 - 04:13pm PT
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This is one of the reasons I don't like to shoot animals from the road. There is always some dork who knows nothing about wildlife and gets way too close. Plus, it's just more fun shooting in the back country. The road and its people jams take the wild out of wildlife.
Yea, we grow big elk here but I'm not sure how smart we grow em. This one got in a fight with a bale of hay. I'm guessing the elk won.
Here are some videos of tourists being tourons. Mostly in Yellowstone and Estes Park Colorado.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=elk+attack
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Apr 20, 2015 - 04:38pm PT
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hey there say, patrick... thanks for sharing...
my twin buddies have elk cross their land and even STAY... due to them wanting to munch horse-and-cow-stuff... but wow, they DO know better,
how to behave around elk...
whewww... they are not without danger element, that's for sure...
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Apr 20, 2015 - 07:24pm PT
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ekat...that's the tamalax shaking not the elk...
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