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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 4, 2017 - 11:29am PT
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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!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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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."
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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reading comprehension is HARD ... and since i couldn't find a horn dog thread
never thought to ask about his upbringing
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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wall frog, getting set for the dyno
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nice shots!
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 4, 2017 - 12:56pm PT
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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?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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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!"
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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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.
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Greg Barnes
climber
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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.
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splitclimber
climber
Sonoma County
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I get to work with these cute guys
California Tiger Salamander
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 4, 2017 - 06:00pm PT
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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.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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If you pick up a salamander and carry it to the next stream over, can it, and will it, find it's way back?
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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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
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 5, 2017 - 08:22am PT
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Get a load of them feet!
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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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:
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 26, 2017 - 11:30pm PT
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Chimney climbing! And moth catching.
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L
climber
Hip deep in the slipstream of Life...
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Aug 29, 2017 - 08:26pm PT
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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.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Aug 30, 2017 - 06:48am PT
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I see a self-satisfied superiority in Floppy's regard. Handsome frog.
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 30, 2017 - 07:20am PT
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^^^ Is that in Hawaii?
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Aug 30, 2017 - 07:46am PT
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Gecko's in the house are considered good luck. UNLESS your wife or girlfriend freak out when they see 'em. My crew and I in Guam named a pair Pebbles and Bam Bam and they were always chowing down on insects.
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couchmaster
climber
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Aug 31, 2017 - 08:54am PT
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Might have to click on the photo to get it large enough to see. Tree frog on the wall.
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L
climber
Hip deep in the slipstream of Life...
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Aug 31, 2017 - 09:10pm PT
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Another little fella saved from the boiling pool...
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Aug 31, 2017 - 11:17pm PT
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I caught 5 huge frogs in The Meadow on a hook with some red webbing.gave them to some Koreans in camp4. They dined me like a Greek god with a plethora of food.. Needless to say, they tasted like chicken 😘
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cyndiebransford
climber
Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
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I find them when I mow the yard. I save them from the mower when I see them.
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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it is threads like this that make me wish the comments could be added, and seen, without enlargement.
many great shots, love Ed's (yes the other one) very environmental shot and many others.
did anyone else think of Mike Hoover?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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So tiny and so fearless!
Actually, sensitive to kindred spirits and massive body warmth. :-)
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 1, 2017 - 10:32pm PT
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Same frog as my last post. Just caught a moth in this shot.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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moth hunting
Uh, no. More like show boating.
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DM88T
climber
Dave Tully SanDimas,California
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 4, 2017 - 08:45pm PT
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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^^^^ You sure that’s not Jean-Paul Belmondo playing Gaston?
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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frog waiting patiently
climber waiting
still waiting
progress
ta-da!
best to let the soloist go through
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cliffhanger
Trad climber
California
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BLUEBLOCR - I caught 5 huge frogs in The Meadow on a hook with some red webbing.gave them to some Koreans in camp4. They dined me like a Greek god with a plethora of food.. Needless to say, they tasted like chicken 😘
It's illegal to kill the native wildlife of a National Park.
Edit: Unless they were the non-native bullfrog:
The nonnative bullfrog is a voracious predator that has been implicated in the decline of many native animals. Bullfrogs eat anything they can get their mouth around including: native frogs, toads, salamanders, small mammals, snakes, turtles, even birds and bats. Bullfrogs probably played a part in the loss of populations of western pond turtles and California red-legged frogs in the park. The California red-legged frog no longer occurs in the park. Because bullfrogs have a huge impact on the native wildlife, we have been eradicating them from Yosemite Valley.
https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/nature/amphibians.htm
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 5, 2017 - 01:49pm PT
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Awesome shot there Scooter.
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scooter
climber
fist clamp
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Thanks. He was over by Hite Cove last spring.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there, say, MH2... wow, good job!
also, scooter...
really neat!! i love seeing salamanders...
ooops, but, is he one, or not?
i know there are other similar critters... :)
we once had a frog, hop into our house, as, we had a broken bathtub and house wall, at the backside of house... water just drained outside, from bath...
well, there was a FROG living in the run-off :O
we did not realize it...
one night, we came home from being somewhere with my mom... she was visiting us in south texas, and VOILA! THERE HOPPED a frog...
behind the sofa (which was mid-room, and the bathroom door past the hall, behind the sofa...
we could not at first see WHAT had 'hopped' until we went over to look...
wow... pretty color greenish, and his feet kind of stuck to the floor a bit, but he hopped again... :)
we put him back out into his puddle-hold...
did not really get to see him again... but i will never forget...
it was a fun adventure... :)
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TLP
climber
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Here's a great frog photo swiped from a post by Chris Mac. Really small file, it would be great if he posted a bigger original. It's a wonderful photo.
I'll rummage around a see if I can find images I have of Yosemite toads (rare or unknown outside the park?) and, kind of a special organism to have photos of, the Monteverde golden toad which has since gone extinct. Really unfortunate, it was an incredibly beautiful toad in the Costa Rican cloud forest.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Apr 22, 2018 - 08:09pm PT
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in the field i noted the rubble in the crack, but at home on the monitor, an eye popped out at me
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 22, 2018 - 08:16pm PT
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Crazy how well they blend in!
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MountainShark
Trad climber
Ventura, Ca
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Apr 23, 2018 - 07:09am PT
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Well I thought for sure I would see a pic of our most famous frog in California on this thread. The mountain yellow legged frog is famous in Southern California. Anyone have a photo? Maybe I missed it in the scroll.
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tradryan
Big Wall climber
San Diego
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Apr 23, 2018 - 07:53am PT
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Ed posted a good photo on the first page. I've counted hundreds but I'm usually pretty remiss at photography... If you subscribe to pics or it doesn't count then I may not even be a climber.
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