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Coolest animal you have come across while skiing?

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BradGeiger
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Whats the coolest animal you have come across while skiing.

I had an encounter with a MT. lion a couple years ago that was really cool.


Oct 18 2009 5:19PM
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Peach.
Posts: 3879 - Karma: 933
I saw a Mt. Lion and some cubs when I was hangin out with the snowmaking crew.
Oct 18 2009 5:21PM
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Larz-the-Ninja
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Ive seen a squirrel
Oct 18 2009 5:22PM
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Style+eeze
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i always see cubs and momma bears at whistler during the spring or right around when they end hibernation.
Oct 18 2009 5:22PM
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rlee
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no way! me too
Oct 18 2009 5:22PM
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switchieski
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fucking mountain goat almost killed me becuz it got in my way
Oct 18 2009 5:23PM
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doGelyst
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they are the coolest.
Oct 18 2009 5:23PM
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jblaski
Posts: 5566 - Karma: 1,078
I scared the crap out of some deer (and they scared me) once. Yeah Wisconsin.
Oct 18 2009 5:25PM
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loveyoursneakers
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I've seen a Kangaroo and a Wombat while skiing.

Oct 18 2009 5:28PM
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McLeod
Posts: 1762 - Karma: 1,582
moose in jackson
Oct 18 2009 5:28PM
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nickyp
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A PARTY ANIMAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!......





....fail. I'll GTFO
Oct 18 2009 5:29PM
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GayWolf420
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i saw a moose once up at snowbird during spring skiing. scared the shit out of me
Oct 18 2009 5:29PM
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p-fo
Posts: 9372 - Karma: 6,155
pine marten
Oct 18 2009 5:32PM
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TheWeaz
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manbearpig
Oct 18 2009 5:33PM
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Blurst
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a porcupine
Oct 18 2009 5:35PM
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steevner
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a mouse. It looked like a leaf being blown in random zig-zags and circles.
Oct 18 2009 5:36PM
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Lt-Aldo-Raine
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Oct 18 2009 5:36PM
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anti_bunk
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ya i saw one at a basin from the lift it was bouncin up and down on this tree branch so funny
Oct 18 2009 5:37PM
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Username_42069
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porky-pine
Oct 18 2009 5:47PM
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Blurst
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yes they are really wicked the one i saw was about 40 feet up in a tree
Oct 18 2009 5:47PM
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MatRich
Posts: 4789 - Karma: 1,813
a deer. they are awsome when they arnt on your landing which it was
Oct 18 2009 5:51PM
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ISKIBC
Posts: 82 - Karma: 12
a baby bear in mammoth
Oct 18 2009 5:54PM
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heFF
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timberline tiger!
Oct 18 2009 5:57PM
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skithesprings
Posts: 9086 - Karma: 1,349

i saw what i thought was a leaf blowing across the slope and decided to tail tap it. turns out it was a mole.

it died

Oct 18 2009 6:00PM
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hank_hill
Posts: 1273 - Karma: 217
pink flamingo
Oct 18 2009 6:04PM
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.Asain-Skiier
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A wild gaper
Oct 18 2009 6:05PM
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ShadyHillGroup
Posts: 2881 - Karma: 213
i was skiing some sidecountry in JH two years ago and came over a roller and ran into some meese. they were big and fucking scary.

I chased a black bear cub by accident over the summer. it was in a raspberry bush and I just saw the top of its back and wanted to figure out what it was. I chased it like 30 yards then it popped its head out of the bush and surprised the shit out of me
Oct 18 2009 6:07PM
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tbayjibber
Posts: 326 - Karma: 62
i ran over a squirrel once totally by accident
Oct 18 2009 6:08PM
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TheButterHashira
Posts: 9691 - Karma: 1,702
Deer, ground hogs.
Oct 18 2009 6:09PM
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Funnel
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From the base area at my mountain, I am able to look fairly far up a main run and one morning I looked up and there was a huge ass
mountain lion walking across the run.
Oct 18 2009 6:09PM
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Pitolairas
Posts: 665 - Karma: 1,174
tiny evil fox!!
Oct 18 2009 6:10PM
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bigballa123
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i saw a mountain lion eatin a deer then a black bear jumped on the mountain lion and sliced its neck the the deer killed the bear...long day
Oct 18 2009 6:11PM
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Samsquanch
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A white Squirrel
Oct 18 2009 6:13PM
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pharmony19
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moose at brighton
Oct 18 2009 6:19PM
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Avifarer
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One time at Lake Louise we ducked this rope and were skiing beside it but we slowly started venturing away from the rope. And the one guy who knew where to go said we turn around this tree and then go between these two trees and its wide open and it will take us right back in bounds.
So i was following him, he turns around the one tree and stops, so i stop behind him. He points to the snow between the two trees and there is a lynx sitting there.
We didnt know if he would fucking attack us or what so we took our skis/boards off and walked around the trees. Took us 45 minutes to get back in bounds because the trees were so dense and we could get back over to where we needed to be.
So now we call it lake loulynx.
Oct 18 2009 6:25PM
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Logey.
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Oct 18 2009 6:28PM
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soulskier
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i've seen bear tracks, no excited animals though
Oct 18 2009 6:28PM
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double_D
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snow rabbit
Oct 18 2009 6:35PM
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Leafman
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sasquatch, scary stuff
Oct 18 2009 6:39PM
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jerad
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Oct 18 2009 6:52PM
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jblaski
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oh, and one day we had a skunk running around the hill. It never sprayed, but people were flying all over the place trying to avoid getting close to it.

And to whoever said the kangaroo.....that's badass.
Oct 18 2009 6:57PM
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mBall
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I ran over one....
Oct 18 2009 6:58PM
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VT_scratch
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yup
Oct 18 2009 6:59PM
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Jwalk
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from the lift me and some friends saw a porcupine and my one stupid friend thought it would be a good idea to ski down and poke it with his pole...
Oct 18 2009 7:06PM
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deleted5
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there are lamas and sheep a my home mouton
Oct 18 2009 7:08PM
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Galin
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There was a moose in the woods next to the park at Killington this past year. Chilled there the entire day.
Oct 18 2009 7:10PM
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cbalkman
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I ran over a white grouse while traversing in Powder Mountain backcountry. It was about the size of a chicken and flew out from between my skis. Scared me so bad
Oct 18 2009 7:12PM
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*TURBONERD*
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hey, i've seen one of those before too!!
Oct 18 2009 7:13PM
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Blandct
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Bear and cubs following behind on the way up to the horstman glacier
Oct 18 2009 7:19PM
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*Dos*Planker*
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Oct 18 2009 7:29PM
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