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Coolest animal you have come across while skiing?

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BradGeiger
Posts: 288 - Karma: 67
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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C_Perin
Posts: 944 - Karma: 156
moose
Oct 18 2009 7:30PM
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OrangeName
Posts: 675 - Karma: 15
i seen one of them mice! and i ollied over it and smashed it with my tails!
Oct 18 2009 7:31PM
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Mr.Huck
Posts: 6096 - Karma: 14,896
Cow Elk - Crossedl in front of me on a narrow power line trail.  If I had been 6 feet farther down the hill, she would have squished me.  Huge porcupine - stopped while tree skiing and didn't notice that it was asleep on a branch about 4 feet from my face.  My Ausi Sheppard Jazz -  skied a steep avi chute with her and she looked like a dolphin.  This was at night under a full moon.  Most awesome run for me ever. 
Oct 18 2009 7:47PM
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[BRI]noceros
Posts: 2319 - Karma: 40
i've seen fox, deer and a groundhog once. nothing that cool
Oct 18 2009 7:52PM
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TheWiseOne
Posts: 858 - Karma: 24
now thats just mean. you should have picked him up an let him ride on the front of your ski
Oct 18 2009 7:54PM
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cool.
Posts: 3457 - Karma: 1,724
ive seen a black bear and a mo fuckin mtn lion
Oct 18 2009 8:03PM
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Static
Posts: 8553 - Karma: 4,089
You guys that have seen Puma's are pretty lucky, I've been wanting to see one my whole life.
Oct 18 2009 8:11PM
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powderhound100
Posts: 2510 - Karma: 144
Saw a bear at diamod peak in Lake Tahoe. It was huge, like really fat.
Oct 18 2009 8:14PM
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LMPJibbin
Posts: 1607 - Karma: 17
little chipmunk right on the trail it was pretty cute
Oct 18 2009 8:14PM
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ChucklesNorman.
Posts: 1197 - Karma: 719
I hit a partidge in trees. It scared the shit out of me.
Oct 18 2009 8:15PM
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goodiepocket
Posts: 950 - Karma: 641
bobcat
Oct 18 2009 8:16PM
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wesley.
Posts: 6483 - Karma: 1,049
porcupine
Oct 18 2009 8:18PM
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123ski
Posts: 7374 - Karma: 1,415
Coyote
Bigger Coyote
Porcupine
Rabbit
Squirrel
Chipmunk
Rat

Oct 18 2009 8:19PM
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*Johnny
Posts: 403 - Karma: 19
2 deer crossing the familiar run at Mont-Ste-Anne
Oct 18 2009 8:59PM
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JRullo
Posts: 1794 - Karma: 265
ive seen a linx and a deer
Oct 18 2009 9:00PM
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.SimonB.
Posts: 1959 - Karma: 713
i saw some deer trying to cross a trail on the ICE Coast and they started slipping and they were sprawling all over. they finally regained control before going into the trees. i wish i was skiing next to them! lol
Oct 18 2009 9:17PM
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Dan-Man
Posts: 7488 - Karma: 3,620
i was once skiing copper in late november and a huge elk ran across the run. it was pretty cool
Oct 18 2009 9:19PM
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idskithat
Posts: 1314 - Karma: 154
tyranosourus-fucking-rex
Oct 18 2009 9:29PM
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DrZoidberg
Posts: 5675 - Karma: 4,268
I saw a bear, but it was pretty high up in a tree. It was kinda hugging it. Also when I was at A Basin, I saw some giant crows in the bowl. Much bigger than anything here in NJ, they have like a four foot wingspan I bet.
Oct 18 2009 9:29PM
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stevenc
Posts: 162 - Karma: 41
Pink elphant.  Don't know if it was real or not, looked pretty real.
Oct 18 2009 9:46PM
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CFD
Posts: 1009 - Karma: 197
we found an echidna this year
Oct 18 2009 9:46PM
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Gfunkrussell
Posts: 230 - Karma: 1,074
I've found Snow snakes... lots of em!
Oct 18 2009 9:54PM
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readiculous
Posts: 880 - Karma: 28
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This guy is suspiciously waiting in the car for me most times... Weird.

Oct 18 2009 10:11PM
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*stew
Posts: 488 - Karma: 124
a mouse
Oct 18 2009 10:13PM
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~~JEFF~~
Posts: 1045 - Karma: 301
A MOOSE on a tree run in the woods at the canyons, utah
COOLEST/SCARIEST thing ever it was HUGE
TOP THAT
im not joking at all
Oct 18 2009 10:23PM
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Myfirstname.
Posts: 1581 - Karma: 312
At loveland I've seen a couple foxes, a couple porcupines, a dope lookin white weasel thing, and a squirrel with no tail, which i assume is due to a run-in with a ski edge.
Oct 18 2009 10:25PM
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special_k10101
Posts: 1498 - Karma: 72
seconded

once during the spring there was this adolescent black bear munching on one of those bamboo poles on the side of a run and there were all these japanese tourists taking off their skis and taking pictures of it from a highly dangerous distance.

during the summer, bears are everywhere.  we counted them from the lift on the way down.  probably about 8.
Oct 18 2009 10:33PM
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J-Evs
Posts: 6387 - Karma: 1,615
a ZUBA CAT..... also known as a "porcupine"
Oct 18 2009 10:35PM
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SacAttack
Posts: 168 - Karma: 10
i almost skiid into a moose at canyons... thing was like 700 pounds
Oct 18 2009 10:40PM
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~~JEFF~~
Posts: 1045 - Karma: 301
exactly the same thing with me
Oct 18 2009 10:43PM
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wheres_my_snow
Posts: 473 - Karma: 11
yeti
Oct 18 2009 10:46PM
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qscwdvefbrgn
Posts: 17 - Karma: 10
ski bunnies
Oct 18 2009 11:05PM
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skiP.E.I.
Posts: 7821 - Karma: 21,843
Almost skied over Ptarmigan once, and I've seen snowshoe hares.
Oct 18 2009 11:16PM
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k-rob
Posts: 14217 - Karma: 2,891
i almost slid right over a pika one day.
Oct 18 2009 11:30PM
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pomme-de-terre
Posts: 3915 - Karma: 703
fish, mice, deer

i managed to grab a squirrel once, but i was hauling ass when i got it, and was so excited that i had actually managed to catch it that i totally forgot what to do next, so i lost my balance, ate shit, and lost the squirrel.


Oct 18 2009 11:43PM
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Franny
Posts: 3980 - Karma: 77
nothing.....
Oct 18 2009 11:45PM
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erikK
Posts: 3245 - Karma: 2,328
A scorpiongaper.  It tried to sting me
Oct 19 2009 12:05AM
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BroBomb
Posts: 500 - Karma: 1,726

I've seen dogs in people's cars waitin for em. I'm so jealous, my dog would probly rip the steering wheel off, and her fur's too short I'd probly have a dogsicle waiting for me.

Oh and I've seen a bear at the mtn of my youth: mt creek NJ of all places.

Oct 19 2009 12:19AM
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East.
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Oct 19 2009 12:24AM
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Tortao
Posts: 1292 - Karma: 10
porcupine. it was just chillin in the middle of the run
Oct 19 2009 12:28AM
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iLLbiLLy
Posts: 2865 - Karma: 2,631
big fucken elk while driving up buff pass in steamboat preseason.
Oct 19 2009 12:30AM
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Malcolm
Posts: 15951 - Karma: 9,451
theres a porcupine that lives in a tree under the chairlift. other than that ive seen a deer run across the end of a rail at bruno and some bears from the chairlift at whistler which i was fucking stoked about.
Oct 19 2009 12:36AM
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GayWolf420
Posts: 37380 - Karma: 119,948

ive seen the rare and dangerous tammy wamstick.

Oct 19 2009 12:44AM
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Davy.Crockett
Posts: 5373 - Karma: 324
those things are dangerous.
Oct 19 2009 1:38AM
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El_Barto.
Posts: 11661 - Karma: 24,364
ravens,  they are sick as fuck and craftier than most humans. ive seen foxes a few times at copper and a bear once after hours just chilling under superbee. never seen anythin to cool in oregon
Oct 19 2009 1:57AM
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StReEtPIRATES
Posts: 1378 - Karma: 138

ive seen a plethora of small rodents whilst skiing.

Oct 19 2009 2:00AM
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MALONE
Posts: 3819 - Karma: 73
i saw pedifilepeter waiting around the top of First Time lift at PC hunting for prey. Ironic he was at first time. such an animal
Oct 19 2009 2:03AM
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vinnyvan
Posts: 132 - Karma: 24
wasnt skiing, but one time we went for a ride into glacier park.. coming down logan pass just cruisin a bear crossed the road about 20 yards ahead of us.
Oct 19 2009 2:05AM
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BackRoad
Posts: 299 - Karma: 46
I once saw a flock of moosen
Oct 19 2009 2:07AM
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powninja
Posts: 1053 - Karma: 242
Seen a Giraffe around Big Sky and Moonlight Basin area.
Oct 19 2009 2:10AM
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