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orngave
Jun 7, 2002, 1:51 PM
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I went night bouldering last night, and too my lantern. I went down under this over hand and was there for a while, when a giant rat ran right by my foot. So I of course jump up and when I did, about 6 came scurrying out from behind a crack, but apparently there are a lot of bottles back there and it sounded like someone was coming, and I was by myself, in the middle of this gorge. It weirded me out till I finally figured out it was the rats.
E.B.
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stewbabby
Jun 7, 2002, 3:23 PM
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Since no one lese mentioned it I guess this isn’t a problem elsewhere. Here the buzzards (the necks call them turkey vultures, I don’t know what they are really) nest and chill on the ledges of the higher cliff lines. There is nothing better than pulling a ledge and facing a 3 foot tall bird staring you in the face. And also realizing this bird could kick your a$$ right now if it wanted to.
Stewart
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rocknpowda
Jun 7, 2002, 3:42 PM
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While climbing a 5.10 finger crack at the City of Rocks, I was kind of cruxing out and went to put a cam in the crack when I realized I was looking eye to vampire-istic eye with a bat squeezed up in the crack. I screamed like a girl, tried to place the cam without disturbing the flying rodent and got the hell out of there.
I also had a flock of pigeons hurtle out of a crack at me once in the City as well. Apparently that place is for the birds! (sorry about the cheesy pun, it was irresistable)
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justgoupfromthere
Jun 8, 2002, 10:42 PM
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Recently while searching for boulering areas I scared a deer. And there are wild horses that hang around one of the crags that I climb at.
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erica44
Jun 9, 2002, 2:32 AM
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a group of friends and I went to the Gilas for Spring break a couple years back, and I was in the shitty tent that barely stood up and fit two people. In the middle of the night I felt something brushing up against my back. Instantly my insides traded places and played musical chairs. I couldn't move. I soon realized it was just some animal looking for food, but my stupid tent mate started making noise and hitting the tent. What did she have to lose I was between her and the animal, sure she could sacrifice me. needless, to say it scared the s--- out of me (not literally). That week I had other plenty of animal encounters not to mention a cactus encounter but this one sticks out the most.
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timpanogos
Jun 9, 2002, 3:40 AM
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I did the west slabs of Olympus with AlpineRocket today. After topping the slabs we scambled towards the north summit. Mid step, I hear this buzzing sound right where the old foot was headed - a nasty rattler was really irritated that AlpineRocket had woke him up (he was ahead of me by about 5 yards and had just gone right over it without seeing it). We were lucky neither of us got bitten.
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traide
Jun 9, 2002, 6:37 AM
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I was in ophir canyon once, (about 50 miles as the crow flies from salt lake city) on a route called mr poopy pants. I never understood where the name came from until one evening last fall.
I had just gotten through the crux, and was standing on a ledge. I wasn't quite to the next bolt yet, but was resting a bit on the ledge. All of a sudden a bat comes flying straight at me from inside a crack in front of me. scared me so bad i almost fell.
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mightymucklebunk
Jun 22, 2002, 4:44 PM
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I was just caving in the guads and we had to remove a rattler from the first entrance, real fun.
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dyno2acrimper
Jul 1, 2002, 1:29 AM
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I was climbing the flake route at Rock Rimmon last autumn with some friends...i was about half way up the route when i put my hand into a pocket and felt something squishy...lifted myself up a little to find out that i had almost killed a toad...actually i think it was a tree frog...but i was kind of surprised to see it up that high in the rocks...
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blindslap
Jul 8, 2002, 5:19 AM
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i was climbing crecent crack in Little cotonwood and had a little lizard follow me up half the pitch. He would climb up ahead of me and look down like he was saying "what, you can't do this"
then he'd haul up another two feet and look back again.
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apollodorus
Jul 8, 2002, 5:23 AM
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What are those little weird rat things that live high on up on El Capitan? They don't look like normal rats, but sort of like a ferret or mink or something. I should have taken a picture of one when I was up there.
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wildtrail
Jul 8, 2002, 6:00 AM
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How about the bear that ran off with my backpack while I hung from my belay anchors in Gunnison? Does that one work for you?
Yup. Lost my pack, briefly. Found it in the woods about 100 yards from its original position. It was okay, but somehow (don't ask me how), the bear managed to open the top pocket without ripping it and devour my box of Cliff Bars.
I named that bear "Cliff". A bear who seemed to follow me for a week while we were in that area. I saw him five times. Yes. It was the same bear as it had the same markings.
Not my first encounter with bears. Been charged once, too. However, that was the first time I heard something while hanging from a rock and looked down to find a bear with my pack in its mouth.
Steve
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climber_chick
Jul 11, 2002, 6:55 AM
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all i have really encountered were bugs and spiders. woohoo. i know that my knees have encountered the rock quite a bit. couple scars here and there, but no flying squirrels.
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rocknalaska
Jul 19, 2002, 11:06 PM
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I've had several experiences here in AK with moose and Bears, but the oddest was definitely between my dog and a beaver. Somehow my dog was in the lake with the beaver on shore, and they wouldn't let each other in. My dog wanted on shore, but was afriad of the beaver, and the beaver wanted in the water, but was afriad of my dog. Stand-off. Oh, yeah, getting trapped on top of a boulder by a moose was my own oddest experience. Seen several bears while exploring for new crags.
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