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Peater
Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 23, 2017 - 07:45pm PT
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Twice this moose thing happened to me:
I'm hiking looking at the ground then look up and there's a 1000 lb moose 6 feet in front of me. It's not threatening but just BIG and looking at me. I back off a bit and go around but how could something that big just be there.
I lived in a house with less than "better practices" construction. The family of opossums living under it joined me often. Fortunately the mom couldn't fit through the hole but the 3 babies would stroll across my living room while I was reading without even giving me a nod or a bump.
Hiking again I hear something in the brush. Don't see it but I know it's a black bear. Fortunately it runs off. My neighbors a few days later found their pet goat's head. Not the rest of her.
When I was kid I tried to see how close I could get to this deer with only one antler. Pretty close, but when I turned and walked away the deer charged and nailed me in the back with it's one good one and planted me on the ground.
The snakes in Arizona, I don't even know where to begin.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 23, 2017 - 07:47pm PT
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Meh, buy me a case of Trappiste and I'll tell ya about dissing a white bear.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Jan 23, 2017 - 07:49pm PT
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Try turning a corner in town and confronting six elk.
Okay, so Banff isn't quite a normal "town", but still...
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Peater
Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 23, 2017 - 07:59pm PT
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Reilly and Ghost, But that's the point
My stories are lame. I want to hear your better ones.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Jan 23, 2017 - 08:03pm PT
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F*#king Vedauwoo moose, poppin' outta the shrubberies.
F*#king Greyrock buzzworms, underfoot a'fore they zzzzzz-zzipp you.
F*#king GJ peregrines, divebombing and sendin' me scootin'.
Damnable desert gnats, mosquitos, mice.
Love 'em all. Live and let live, sez me. Still though, nearly stopped my heart a coupla times this past year alone just watchin' the ungulates pace it out after my mutt, and a snake-ingenue pup learn the strike-range geometries of a given reptile. It's all fun and games 'til someone gets mushed up like granny's jam or fatty neurohemotoxin dosed.
The canyon wrens and ravens though, good omens all.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Jan 23, 2017 - 08:06pm PT
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My stories are lame. I want to hear your better ones.
Yours didn't seem all that lame. But regarding Reilly's white bear comment, at least three of us here on ST (Reilly, Wayne Merry, and I) have encountered white bears. Not the most fun experience in the universe, but we all survived.
I've already told my story (it's here: http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=2727226&msg=2729094#msg2729094);, and Wayne's is on the page before mine. I don't think I've heard Reilly's.
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Peater
Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 23, 2017 - 08:47pm PT
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Ghost,
Nice read/story !!, from your previous post. I've been here just a short time and don't know all the history. Sounds like you have some.
I love to hear stories. Thanks.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 23, 2017 - 08:52pm PT
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The Quebec video totally wins. I had no idea that's what Québécois sounded like. Sure it wasn't Norwegian?
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Peater
Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 23, 2017 - 09:11pm PT
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Not there but elsewhere. But somewhat uncomfortable in any case.
How did you remove it, we all want to know?
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Peater
Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 23, 2017 - 09:29pm PT
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Good Moosey Story
Went up to Jackson with some friends. Had a nice hotel and were seeing a concert/show at the Mangy Moose that night.
My friend who is a concierge by occupation obtained a champagne bucket full of ice and glasses and an exquisite bottle. We opened it and took our first sips as the sun went down over the Grand. Just then three moose stood up in front of us from behind some shrubs. Couldn't have been a better sight.
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Peater
Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 23, 2017 - 10:36pm PT
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The wolves I've encountered have been really cool and non threatening. They even left their pups while they went off hunting wapiti, elk. While we we were very nearby.
We can live with wolves I think. Don't see that ever happening though.
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johnboy
Trad climber
Can't get here from there
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Jan 23, 2017 - 10:38pm PT
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Two days before last Thanksgiving the wife and I were walking down a draw in the hills here. I was busy scanning the 2 hill sides for deer or elk as we walked when my wife yelled, mountain lion. I asked where and she said on the trail ahead of us. Before I even glance that way my mind was already going through the idea of having a stand off while trying to make myself look larger. Then I spot him about 30 yards on the trail ahead of us, he turned and slinked down the path for about 100 yards and then disappeared off the trail and up the hillside. We were both so in awe that we both completely forgot to take a picture. She had seen him stand up from his ambush site 2 foot off the trail, surrounded by jack pines. We went there and you could feel the ground was still warm from were he had been lying in wait for his next meal.
We walk hundreds of miles each year through the hills over a 50 year period and this is only the second time we've actually seen one. We've heard plenty and seen plenty of fresh track, but the full sight of one is worth every mile I've ever walked.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 23, 2017 - 10:45pm PT
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Tics? Really? How about bivying and waking up to find a leopard print less
than 10' from yer sleeping bag?* I was spared because I was righteous. What
other explanation is possible? It is immaterial that I have strayed from
the true path since, the facts speak plainly. And even as we speak an owl is
calling my name. I am at peace.
*I even have a photo
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Peater
Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 23, 2017 - 10:53pm PT
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Cool story Johnboy , really cool. Thanks
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Peater
Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 23, 2017 - 11:46pm PT
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Reilly'Tics? Really? How about bivying and waking up to find a leopard print less than 10' from yer sleeping bag?*''''''''''''
We'll I'd rather have a print 10 feet from my tent than a tic on my pisser.
""I was spared because I was righteous"". Actually you were speared.
What other explanation is possible? Your keyboard doesn't work.
It is immaterial that I have strayed from the true path since, ...TOPOS ARE YOUR GUIDE. THEY WILL LEAD YOU TO THE TRUE PATH>
the facts speak plainly: THE PORTS DO Of THE POSITIONS THAT THEY HOLD WHEN THERE IS SOMETHING TO CHANGE WE WILL DO IT!!!
And even as we speak an owl is
calling my name. I am at peace::: I always liked the Northern Saw wet.
*I even have a phot""" OF YOU????
Please Post it
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DanaB
climber
CT
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Jan 23, 2017 - 11:51pm PT
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Try turning a corner in town and confronting six elk.
Did that in RMNP. Walked around the corner of a big boulder that was next to the trail and there was bull and several cows - 12-15 feet away. Fortunately the bull didn't see us a threat.
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Feb 23, 2017 - 10:25am PT
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I've had a bunch of fun wildlife moments over the years, but this one was up there with the best.
Late one afternoon a few weeks ago I was on a dirt road in Palo Verde NP with a big marsh on one side and forest on the other. Had left my car a few hundred meters back down the road in order to sneak up to the edge of the marsh in hopes of seeing something good. There was a big Jabiru stork just standing there about 50 m away and so I started taking photos.
I caught some movement out of the corner of my eye and this big male Ocelote came sauntering out of the forest right into the middle of the road, but it was only about 25 feet away, and seemed to be ignoring me. With camera already in hand, I started snapping photos...
but the cat got to the edge of the marsh, where it seemed to want to go, and turned back into the road, and looked over in my direction...
and started walking towards me...! got close enough that I thought it prudent to back up a few steps
it obviously had some problem with its left eye which was swollen and clouded over. Hard to tell what had happened, but I think it might just be age related. It was moving about without any signs of being ill, and appeared to be in fine form otherwise. His lack of fear was a bit unusual, so maybe it was a bit delirious
Anyway, it walked about in the road for a short while, seemingly udecided about what to do, but finally walked steadily off into the marsh...
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