WOLVERINES!!!!

[olyclimber]

What was that movie?

Anyway, they caught and tagged one of those little buggers up by Mazama. Anyone actually come across one of them before up there?

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060222/ap_on_sc/tracking_wolverines

[olyclimber]

ahhh yes....Red Dawn.

 

Trivia: This film was entered into the Guinness Book of Records as having the most acts of violence of any film up to that time. It was calculated that on average an act of violence occurs at a rate of 134 per hour or 2.23 per minute.

[The_Rooster]

[Dechristo]

Poor housepets. Tough to train to piddle on newspaper.

 

[Geek_the_Greek]

Nice coincidence...

 

TR link

[Weekend_Climberz]

That was a bad ass movie. I expect any day for the chinese to come parachuting down like the russians did in the movie.

[DirtyHarry]

Interesting. We saw quite a few bear-like tracks on our Enchantments ski tour the other weekend. I had to bust out my Tom Brown skillz and shit. We though it might be a bear, but bears like to hibernate in winter. Wolverine??

[Geek_the_Greek]

Yeah, that's what I thought too: big prints, obvious claws - bears; but I sure didn't want to meet a bear in the mountains in February... But then looking at photos of bear prints, it's clear they weren't bear prints. I wasn't going to draw any conclusions myself, but a friend in the know seemed convinced it was a wolverine.

 

[pale]

Here's a site that has some good pics of Wolverine tracks and their gait. It's quite informative on Wolverines in general: http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/ab/banff/natcul/natcul15_E.asp

 

Cool that they have one tagged now

[DirtyHarry]

Cool. Thanks for the link. Looks like what we saw.

[Blake]

I have friends who have seen them near Bridge Creek, and near Purple Pass, in the NCNP. I think we already talked about wolverines in WA actually...

[Dru]

Yeah like 10 times.

Don't you have any kakapos to photograph for us Blake?

[olyclimber]

ya, but i bet you never had a yahoo link in those other threads. this one is so much more legit.

[Blake]

Yeah like 10 times.

Don't you have any kakapos to photograph for us Blake?

Dru, i've been here for like 2 weeks, you got to explain the lingo a little, i don't know what a kakapo even is.

[Dru]

 

A ridiculous flightless owl, "the most endangered bird in the world".

[olyclimber]

I'd like to see one of those things in a cage match against a wolverine.

[Dru]

Hell, you could put it in a cage match with a cage and the cage would win.

[plexus]

Hell, you could put it in a cage match with a cage and the cage would win.

 

Betcha the cage couldn't find them, they look like they would blend in quite well. They have to be crafty otherwise I think they would have gone the way of the Tasmanian Tiger.

[magellan]

(AP) Cascade mountains

 

Several local climbers have reported oversized snafflehounds acting agressively, with at least one climber having his 'third tool' bitten. Some are blaming wolverines for this rash of weasel attacks.

 

A local gumby, who we'll call 'olyclimber' for sake of anonymity had this to say. "Golly, that them there snaffle, they just go snark snark snark, he jumped up and we was wrestlin' and that ding dang furry butt and then my yoda was torn in half, sumbitch!"

[mccallboater]

In 1983 I was enjoying lunch after climbing up the first half the E Ridge of Cutthroat Peak. I was looking into the basin when I noticed what I thought was a bear below me crossing from North to South. I realized I was looking at a Wolverine when I pulled out a monocular. The Wolverine was just lumping along toward the base of the ridge when I think he got a whiff of me. He looked up my direction, turned around and in about 30 seconds traversed the entire basin, sprinting over the ridge toward Cutthroat lake. That same ground would have take me about 30 minutes to cover. I was impressed.