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Mountain Goat Encounter

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Hiker and Mountain Goats Meet on Bridger Range Summit ...
[ youtube video ]
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@LosDosSloFolks
I have had mountain goats get closer to me than I was comfortable with
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This is fairly common in areas of Utah and Colorado where the goats have become used to hikers/climbers.
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:stp: They are so cute!
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I always just pee off the cliff and watch them follow the stream down the mountain!
I'm not sure what my spirit animal is, but I'm confident it has rabies.
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lol, yeah, been there done that.
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sometimes they would follow me up the mtn in the dark
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This guy had personality
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Are they looking for handouts, IE food that they shouldn't have because it's bad for them?
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@SuperstitionGuy They're looking for salt. Which they get from people. Because we pee.
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Post by tibber »

My video quality isn't as good but I think I got some good Mountain Goat🐐 encounters back in Aug 2012.
I, with Ambika and Guru, had several Mountain Goat encounters on our Glacier Trip in 2013. Here is a link to our first encounter approaching Gunsight Pass [ youtube video ] and later that day approaching Lincoln Pass [ youtube video ]
Here was our encounter the next day at the very start of our hike to Sperry Glacier: little snippet of the mule train and then the goats [ youtube video ]
and this was our fourth encounter coming back from Sperry Glacier [ youtube video ]
For me, sometimes it's just as much about the journey as the destination.
Oh, and once in awhile, don't forget to look back at the trail you've traveled.
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The only time they attack is if you call them a goat which antelope find offensive! :)
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@sneakySASQUATCH
Same family as the Chamois, so they'll atttack Vince Shlomi anytime. He makes ShamWows out of them. :) [ youtube video ]
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@SuperstitionGuy
There was a study done a while ago and one of the findings of the study found that Mountain Goats like to hang around people because people deter Mountain Lions, the No. 1 predator of Mountain Goats and their kids.
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I didn't get attacked either, but then I wasn't that close. [ youtube video ]
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Olympic National Park Hikers Can Now Pee Free of Fear of Urine-Addicted Goats

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