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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Cool! Didn’t know they took songbirds. Do they impale them on barbed wire too?
So, if I can get 5 more crankloons together we can have a semi-private
bird/animal safari to South Africa! Who’s in?
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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It could very well have been that norther shrike. it was so fast and most of my attention was on the cloud of feathers and the small bird in the talons as it flew off. the bird it killed lived in a little bird house on Isa's porch and was named Felix. I forget what kind of bird Felix was but Isa is bummed out about it...
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Do that have ice climbing is south Africa?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Not so much, but they do have White Russians!
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Probably the mimic octopus in Indonesia 2017. But no pic. This would surely be up there however.
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seano
Mountain climber
none
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It was even more memorable with sound effects.
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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Maybe not the most memorable, but pretty cool to spot this guy in a tree in our backyard early this morning and it stayed all day :-)
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DCFrench
climber
San Francisco, CA
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A cougar crossing the trail 10 yards in front of me at a Mayan ruins site. A bobcat in Marin on the trail above Fort Cronkhite. A bear coming down the trail towards me in Yosemite when I was 11 (pretty scary for a kid my age but I got a good story and a poem out of it for my English class). A monkey I "communed" with while tripping on acid on Mount Tungurahua in Ecuador (hey, it was the seventies).
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cornel
climber
Lake Tahoe, Nevada
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Feb 10, 2019 - 07:13am PT
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Great Lynx pics! Funny Owl sh#t posting.! And the rattler tale..! Rattlers, had a few encounters with those.. I was aBout 3 pitches up a route on Tacquitz rock. Jamming a nice hand size crack when about to make my next jam I hear a Rattler Face level. Startled, I almost fall. Ok got to get away, so I traverse 10.ft to the right to gain another crack system. Start to plug in a cam and another rattler sounds off.! This time I Traversed 15 ft further right and find another crack, free this time of snakes. The name of the route, Snakes on Everything.
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WBraun
climber
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Feb 10, 2019 - 07:25am PT
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most memorable wildlife sighting?
Tucker Tech appearing out of his bread van in the mornings ....
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Dave
Mountain climber
the ANTI-fresno
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Feb 10, 2019 - 11:45am PT
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Let's see -
5 bobcat running across the trail behind my house last week...
A moose swimming across the reservoir where I work last year...
Elk and buffalo eating hay together off I-70 yesterday...
A herd of mountain goats eating salt off the highway last week.
Last year they kept the kids inside at recess due to four mountain lions prowling the neighborhood...
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seano
Mountain climber
none
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Feb 10, 2019 - 12:57pm PT
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MGuzzy -- It was on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos. It sounded like this but in the basso profundo range:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
And sooo.... slow.... Unsurprisingly, all turtle sex is tantric. ;-)
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jfr
Mountain climber
32N 117W
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Feb 11, 2019 - 03:50am PT
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An American Marten in the Desolation Wilderness west of Lake Tahoe
California Channel Island Fox (Urocyon littoralis santacruzae) on Santa Cruz Island
Scruffy-looking Coyote wandering by completely ignoring me near Bench Lake on the east side of the Sierra
Bald Eagle near Luellen Lake in Banff National Park, Canada. I got to watch it go fishing.
Baby Deer in the Catskill Mountains, New York
A cute Pika collecting food near Tower Mountain in the Cascades, Washington
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errett
Social climber
Grumpy Ridge
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Feb 11, 2019 - 08:56am PT
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Nick Danger
Ice climber
Arvada, CO
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Feb 11, 2019 - 10:01am PT
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Wow, where to begin.....
A pod of whales surfacing within 10 feet of me sea-kayaking off the south coast of Hawaii (AKA the Big Island).
Riding my bicycle home to the rental house on a moonless night in Maine and encountering a moose in the middle of the road; we both startled one another an he galloped straight down the road within a foot of me until he peeled off to go crashing through the woods.
Riding my motorcycle south of Steamboat Springs when a bear came tearing out of the woods on a collision course with me; I rolled on the throttle and missed him by about 1 foot.
Stepping around a huge boulder on Mt Evans and coming literally face to face with a mountain goat.
Coming upon two rattlesnakes entwined in coitus on a trail - that was actually very cool.
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Minerals
Social climber
The Deli
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Feb 11, 2019 - 06:08pm PT
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Great photos!
Around midday today, I looked out my office window, and whadaya know, there’s a horse walking up my snowy driveway. It’s been over a week since I saw them last, and they are back. I was very happy to see that the foal is still with them, and looks just fine, with a bit more fuzz and a tail that is starting to fill out.
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Feb 11, 2019 - 07:29pm PT
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Last week we saw a Bobcat run across the road just as we were crossing the Namekagon R. and the a day or two later we saw a Fisher scurry across the ski trail. 3rd Fisher I have seen.
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Feb 11, 2019 - 07:34pm PT
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Toler, you are hilarious and I'm from Virginia.
Was buying some herb from a guy in CO years ago that had an orphaned fawn in his yard. Got to hold it, it snuggled up, sucked on my ear. Boy, did that story get me laid that night. With a woman, not the deer.
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
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Feb 13, 2019 - 01:41pm PT
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Last week on the Columbia River between Chelan and Wenatchee. My most memorable sighting, though, was when I was practicing survival in the Los Padres Nat'l Forest in California as a teenager in the late 60s. I was trying to sleep on a bed of coals covered with sand. Was with my father and brother. They were sleeping normal style in bags. I woke up or rolled over for maybe the hundredth time at maybe 2:00 in the morning and there was a cougar just on the other side of our packs less than 10 feet away. I had a revolver and was just reaching for it when the cougar ambled away with no fear at all.
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