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- Mark Curtis
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Took these shots this morning on a lake near my home. The fires have really intensified the sunrises/sunsets. Tried to have some fun with the titles......hopefully providing some levity during a tense time for many.
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Yesterday on Grays and Torreys :
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A bull moose (taken a couple of days ago):
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Great! Where did you find this big moose?
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Lincoln's Sparrow (thanks to Skip for ID) near summit of Molas Pass
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- Skip Perkins
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Mark, Great picture! I believe it is a Lincoln's Sparrow.
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Thanks, Skip! It does look very much like a Lincoln's Sparrow and I have changed the description to reflect that fact. Nicely done.Skip Perkins wrote:Mark, Great picture! I believe it is a Lincoln's Sparrow.
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I was descending Green Mtn in Boulder this morning, and just below the cabin at the base of the Ranger Trail, I ran into this bruiser lumbering up the trail.
Luckily, I remembered from my mountain etiquette class that uphill traffic has the right of way, so I backed up and got out of the way--and snapped a couple photos. A couple other people and I retreated across a bridge toward the outhouse--because everyone knows that wild bears don't use outhouses in the woods. He ambled past
and headed into the woods
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Yet somehow I usually make it back to the car safely; and oftentimes, so do the people that I'm with.
Yet somehow I usually make it back to the car safely; and oftentimes, so do the people that I'm with.
- mike_kadow
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Think he was displaced from the fires?JimR wrote:I was descending Green Mtn in Boulder this morning, and just below the cabin at the base of the Ranger Trail, I ran into this bruiser lumbering up the trail.Luckily, I remembered from my mountain etiquette class that uphill traffic has the right of way, so I backed up and got out of the way--and snapped a couple photos. A couple other people and I retreated across a bridge toward the outhouse--because everyone knows that wild bears don't use outhouses in the woods. He ambled past and headed into the woods
I ask only because I haven't heard of many bears in the Boulder area.
To be fair though, my first summer living here ('08), one adult waltz in from the west through the Sourdough sites in White Ranch OS Park.
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Well, the reason I was on Green Mtn was because Bear & South Boulder Peaks were still closed, so I suppose he could have seen the same sign that I did . I had intended to do them but discovered when I got there they are still closed, so I went up Green. I thought it rather ironic that I couldn't do Bear Pk, but instead encountered a bear on Green Mountain.mike_kadow wrote:Think he was displaced from the fires?
I ask only because I haven't heard of many bears in the Boulder area.
To be fair though, my first summer living here ('08), one adult waltz in from the west through the Sourdough sites in White Ranch OS Park.
I have more age than experience, more experience than knowledge, and more knowledge than wisdom.
Yet somehow I usually make it back to the car safely; and oftentimes, so do the people that I'm with.
Yet somehow I usually make it back to the car safely; and oftentimes, so do the people that I'm with.
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Sorry if the previous response was a bit facetious. In fact, bears in Boulder are not all that rare. There was the famous bear falling from the tree earlier this year, and we had three bears up in a tree at NIST a few years ago. It seems we get one or two bear-in-town incidents per year.mike_kadow wrote:Think he was displaced from the fires?
I ask only because I haven't heard of many bears in the Boulder area.
To be fair though, my first summer living here ('08), one adult waltz in from the west through the Sourdough sites in White Ranch OS Park.
I have more age than experience, more experience than knowledge, and more knowledge than wisdom.
Yet somehow I usually make it back to the car safely; and oftentimes, so do the people that I'm with.
Yet somehow I usually make it back to the car safely; and oftentimes, so do the people that I'm with.
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None taken; I found your commentary humorous. And you got some nice pix too.JimR wrote:Well, the reason I was on Green Mtn was because Bear & South Boulder Peaks were still closed, so I suppose he could have seen the same sign that I did . I had intended to do them but discovered when I got there they are still closed, so I went up Green. I thought it rather ironic that I couldn't do Bear Pk, but instead encountered a bear on Green Mountain.mike_kadow wrote:Think he was displaced from the fires?
I ask only because I haven't heard of many bears in the Boulder area.
To be fair though, my first summer living here ('08), one adult waltz in from the west through the Sourdough sites in White Ranch OS Park.
Not sure how up to date Boulder is with their webstuff, but this is what I go off of:
http://www.bouldercolorado.gov/index.ph ... Itemid=413 &
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