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jmlangford
Feb 24, 2002, 6:41 AM
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Climberchic...sounds like you need to be interviewed on Art Bell's radio show
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climberchic
Feb 24, 2002, 6:48 AM
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Who's Art Bell? Sounds like someone on NPR.
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apollodorus
Feb 24, 2002, 6:55 AM
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My partner and I hiked water, food and gear to the base of Half Dome to do the regular NW route. We climbed up on a 20 ft boulder at the bottom, and put our food there for the night. A bear somehow climbed up the 5.8 friction, got our bags, and took them down the hill toward Mirror Lake. We found them, emptied, the next day.
On a lighter note, I was climbing the local rock in Cambria and saw a little hole in the middle of a blank face. Around dusk, bats started coming out of the thing.
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clymber
Feb 24, 2002, 6:57 AM
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sounds like to me climberchick was experimenting with some illeagal stuff
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climberchic
Feb 24, 2002, 7:00 AM
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Hey!
That was perfectly legal stuff!
...in Amsterdam.
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gekolimit
Feb 24, 2002, 8:16 AM
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Leading Edge brought a stinging bee along on our first 2-pitch climb...That was nice of him...haha
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rockandbold
Feb 24, 2002, 5:56 PM
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Mainly small little creatures but after reading all this I decided to bring some firecracker and bb gun.
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rockunderfoot
Feb 28, 2002, 2:03 AM
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Always fun to stick your hand in a crack and have a bunch of wasps come flying out. Luckily they haven't bit me yet
And it's always fun to watch them ants stroll right up the wall on the V23+ route right next to the V4 you're working on. Wish I had that kind of strength
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graniteboy
Feb 28, 2002, 4:43 AM
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Once I was free soloing at the last resort cliff in the Valley. I pulled up ona ledge and realized there was a great horned owl nest there, with a chick in it. I got the hell outta there B4 Mom appeared to claw me.
Another time, we were tracked by a small Grizz in Denali park while doing a range traverse. No fun whatsoever. He wanted to take my sled, while it was attached to me. Good thing my partner was almost as big as the bear...we scared him off. Anyway, we had run outta food the day B4, so it wasn't like he was gonna score a feast...just beat the hell outta us.
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achilles
Feb 28, 2002, 8:41 AM
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My animal encounter was nerve wracking but not scary. I was bouldering up a 15ft crag in the Magaliesberge, SA when I encountered a rockrabbit on a ledge. It was sitting very quietly and was just looking at me with its big brown eyes. After having received a good jolt I just eased on up to the top. I would however not like to meet a slithery animal up top.
Rock-a-bye!
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apollodorus
Feb 28, 2002, 9:01 AM
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Oh, yeah. I forgot about the rattlesnake. My partner and I top out on Royal Arches (and I'd just met this guy the day before) and we come across a rattlesnake. The snake tries to go down into a hole, but this gung ho Marine I'm with grabs the tail, pulls it out and starts swinging it around his head! After about half a minute of this, he whips it full strength onto a big rock to blast its brains out.
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rastalizard
Feb 28, 2002, 11:41 AM
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The first time I went trad climbing I had an interesting experience with baboons.
A troop had been watching us climb for most of the evening from across the gorge.
As it starting getting dark they came down into the gorge to sleep.
Unfortunatley we were belaying from one of their sleeping areas and were all hurriedly forced onto the face,by a large aggressive male.
By the time I started climbing it was almost fully dark and I fell on the crux move.
Without prusik loops I had to be lowered off to a little ledge to sit in the dark,with the barking baboons.A large Hex providing protection of a different sort.
Eventually the others finished the climb and returned with people and torches.
It was quite an introduction to the adventures of trad climbing.
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mightymucklebunk
Mar 4, 2002, 1:56 AM
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Well, At the end of a long climb out of a cave I got chased away by a swarm of killer bees. That really sucked. Then I had to go back down through the cave and out the lower entrance. Have you ever climbed with multiple stings to your face, its kinda hard.
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trailrat
Apr 8, 2002, 6:27 PM
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I was cleaning some holds on a new boulder this weekend... Found a bat up in one hold, left it where it was and didn't climb it... I know, I hate to be bothered when I'm sleeping... Trailrat
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radistrad
Apr 8, 2002, 6:42 PM
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I posted a similar topic http://www.rockclimbing.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=7480&forum=23&30
talks about what is living in the cracks.
I was in Yosemite this weekend, and hiking around Church bowl after the sun set there were lots of black of Centipedes cruising around. I've seen them a lot in the park this year, but not in the quantity as I saw at the base of Bishops Terrace.
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crap
Apr 8, 2002, 8:43 PM
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A Dingo stole my baby
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chitterz
Apr 8, 2002, 11:07 PM
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I heard on Newenglandbouldering.com of a guy who got to the top of a boulder problem only to plumit back to earth screaming "The leeches! The leeches!" (From the topic it was posted in, I gather he made it up to cover that fact that he couldn't pull the top-out, but it's still pretty funny)
As for me: two friends and I were working this V2 crack traverse when one of my friends pulled through the crux only to fall off from laughing. When he could breath again: "There's a cricket in there! And it's LAUGHING at us!" It's not so funny posted in a forum, but at the time... (The route has since been dubbed Cricket's Last Laugh.)
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sirxan
Apr 9, 2002, 12:26 AM
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ok just outta curiousity and I know a few are gonna laff at Me lol, but what bout other types of animals ones that arent easily explained? like say uhhh ummmmm
bigfoots? anyone run into any while out climbing?
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crap
Apr 9, 2002, 12:37 AM
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I run into the abomnibal long armed bastard all the time, no wait, that's my partner.
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trailrat
Apr 10, 2002, 6:08 PM
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The only bigfoots I've seen in the woods, are of hikers... Some scare me all the same...
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ryhawk
Apr 15, 2002, 2:51 PM
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i've only been climbing for about a month now but i've already had my first encounter of the hissing kind. i was doing some bouldering out on a little ledge in the woods behind my house. i was about 15ft up with one move left to finish and when i looked directly to my right there was a snake about one foot away starring me right in the face! talk about an adrenaline rush! i about pissed my pants! i just hung on and tried not to make any sudden moves, finally he slithered back in his little hole and i had to climb right over him to finish my route.
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shilo
Apr 15, 2002, 8:08 PM
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I live in the UK so I dong get encounters with bares (fortunatly i guess) But i have been atacked by Seagulls (Blackbacks and Herring guls) I have also had a go at by crows and Jackdoors.
I sometimes meet soem deer in the woods on the way to Highcliffe, but you usualy just see there asses (just flashes of white) I have seen then really good when I go with my Mum on the horse, I guess they arent as scared when they see a horse.
Se Ya
NIck
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ryhawk
Apr 17, 2002, 6:55 PM
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beavers are viscious dude!
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hang_man
Apr 18, 2002, 1:49 PM
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oh man, I was bouldering near my home and half way thru a stupid bird shited onto my arm........my arm was right in front of my face and it was warm!! damn it... haha
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justgoupfromthere
Jun 3, 2002, 6:45 PM
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We were in El Dorado Canyon I was belaying when my friend that was climbing started yelling. We couldn't figure out what he was saying. Later we discovered he was screaming at us to turn around and get the chipmunk that was stealing food from our packs! He sure was a cute lil' thing.
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