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Sport climber White Salmon, WA Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 2, 2009 - 03:16pm PT Received these pics in an email. Taken by D. Wilder in Glacier NP. Came across the critters hiking along a closed road.





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Trad climber WA Jun 2, 2009 - 03:18pm PT Whoa, thats heavy. and sad. Willoughby



Social climber Truckee, CA Jun 2, 2009 - 03:21pm PT That's impressive! Looks like the cat's got a mouthful of fur, and the sheep got one of it's horns knocked off on impact. I gotta wonder how often this happens. I'm sure both predator and prey push the very limits in order to achieve their respective agendas (eat/don't get eaten). This same scenario was going through my mind watching some of that recent snow leopard footage. It's a jungle out there... Hardman Knott



Gym climber Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca Jun 2, 2009 - 03:36pm PT Very sad, indeed



(although one of them was dead for sure - and not exactly in the nicest way imaginable)... Mark Hudon



Trad climber Hood River, OR Jun 2, 2009 - 05:40pm PT Wow, that's rather amazing. Charlie D.



Trad climber Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra Jun 2, 2009 - 05:47pm PT Could have been taken out by an avalanche earlier???? That very thing did happen years ago with a lynx and goat up on Rogers Pass. originalpmac



Trad climber Ouray, CO Jun 2, 2009 - 05:51pm PT beautiful in a stark, life is beautiful in its own sometimes morbid way sort of way.



anybody remember the video clip of a golden eagle dragging a goat off a cliff to kill it? painful and sad, but such is life and it goes on. Evel



Trad climber the cliffs of insanity Jun 2, 2009 - 06:39pm PT I remember being at the New many years ago and all of the group noticed a terrible odor. Seems as though a deer had been chased off the cliff and was caught by the neck in the V of a tree trunk maybe 25' off the deck.



Natural Selection is a Beautiful Thing.................. reddirt



climber Elevation 285 ft Jun 2, 2009 - 07:20pm PT one of them might have stood a chance if some other animal didn't put that big chunk of asphalt there... Jaybro



Social climber Wolf City, Wyoming Jun 2, 2009 - 07:25pm PT did they both get hit by a car? pcousar



Sport climber White Salmon, WA Topic Author's Reply - Jun 2, 2009 - 07:34pm PT What DMT said, not avalanche or car.



Looks pretty fresh too. tradmanclimbs



Ice climber Pomfert VT Jun 2, 2009 - 10:18pm PT I was in yellostone mid nintys and a ranger told me about finding a wolf who had implaed herself on a sharp stick. the theory was she was at a dead run chasing food and never saw the sharp stick. Totaly skewered right through. they went looking for her when her radio collar stopped moveing and found her dead on a stick. neebee



Social climber calif/texas Jun 2, 2009 - 10:52pm PT hey there, say.... folks don't always get to see this aspect of nature, without needing to make a run for it, themselves, from such a happening...



but, snce the happening, happened differently, in this instance,

we are allowed to "peek in" on what might have been...





oh my...



thanks for the share... Robb



Social climber It's like FoCo in NoCo Daddy-O! Jun 2, 2009 - 11:01pm PT Looks like Going to the Sun road in GNP.One way ride from the top all the way to the bottom w/out the road. Very steep to vertical the whole side of the mountain. Willoughby



Social climber Truckee, CA Jun 3, 2009 - 12:14am PT tradman - I have a photo of a bee that did the same thing on a piece of barbed-wire. Maybe not worth scanning the slide, since I'm sure you can get the idea, but it was just the damnedest thing to come across - a bee that had poked itself between the eyes on the barbed-wire, presumably at full bee-speed, and stuck there. Jaybro



Social climber Wolf City, Wyoming Jun 3, 2009 - 03:12am PT Just stirring the pot, DMT. Gunkie



climber East Coast US Jun 3, 2009 - 09:11am PT Climbing in the Gunks, Near Trapps, down by 'I'm OK, You're OK' I caught sight of something falling in the corner of my vision. I jumped, thinking it was a rock, but the thing was falling way too slowly. It was a chipmunk who probably tried to jump between branches of a nut tree at the top of the cliff, missed, and went for the big ride. The little guy hit, bounced, tried to run, and just stopped. We buried him off the trail with a rock acting as a tombstone.



Or maybe the little guy owed a vig to 'Bruno the Racoon'? Ya know, accidents happen, fires can start anywhere. Messages 1 - 17 of total 17 in this topic Return to Forum List