On July 8th, 2023, Pilot and I summited a mountain.
As all mountains go, it was a shitload of up. I've won plenty of uphill battles in my life but it had been a few years since I'd summitted any earthbeasts worth bragging about. Maybe longer. I didn't do it to brag, though. I did it to see what was at the top.
The trail claimed there would be mountain goats. So many, in fact, that a Mt. Goat Removal Project was scheduled for the end of the month. As such I schlepped my umpteen pound 600mm lens, along the with the three liters of water and snacks for me and the little scruff. A lot of up, a lot of schlepping. Alas, the most mountain goat I saw was in a few strands of white hair alongside the trail.
Her name is Mt. Elinore, and in spite of the three days worth of damage she did to my quads on the descent, I'm glad I spent the day with her.
Here's why:
Mt. Elinore, Olympic Range, Washington. USA.
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Wow… epic views. So worth going up. 🤩
Awesome captures!
Have a lovely mid week 👋🏻
Thanks, you tooooooo!
You are welcome, thank you 😊
I really enjoyed reading all of that up shit and the photos didn't suck at all.
That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me!
Thank you so much! I've been practicing nice, wasn't sure it's working, this is huge!
Fake it 'til you make it!!
Beautiful views 🤩
Thanks! (On behalf of the mountain, of course.)
U r welcome 😁
At least you got a shot of that chipmunk.
Thank god I got a shot of that chipmunk.
Thanks @ewkaw and @qurator team!
Those are some good lookin' mountains. Pilot's a trooper to make it all the way up there :)
The mountains are your eyes.
No wonder I keep finding rocks in there.
Aren't those just the loose rocks off the main mountain?
Maybe. I will have to send a sample into the lab for analysis.
Yes. Get data, always the data, get data.
You checkin' out my mountains, bro? WTF.
Yeah, he's a trooper, that dawg o' mine. Impresses all the hikers with his mountaineering skills.
Caught in the act. Dammit. I'm going to hell.
Who the fuck is this and what have you done with @brandt??!!
I'm his replacement. I pushed him off a cliff.
Oh, ok, that's cool. But are you sure you should be telling me that right here in front of the internet and everybody?
It's 2023. Nobody will ever scroll down this far.
I read submitted instead of summited for some reason.
Oh, now I remember why. Can't talk about that one, sorry, eh.
Earthbeasts. I wonder if you know how accurate you are with that word label. I'm laughing.
Second photo is wicked. Near the end, I'm wondering how it is a chipmunk is on a mountain rock like that.
Yes, I submitted this mountain for @brandt's review, he being hive's foremost expert on mountains west of the rockies.
Earthbeasts. Yes. I know what I'm saying, woman! Mountains have souls!
Chipmunks have souls, too. And good sense enough to hang out on summits and scavenge for m&ms and grapes and nuts and cheese and bits of slim jim (in case they don't get enough excitement as it is living atop a mountain and need a little more).
@nineclaws there's actually a lot of wildlife that likes to hang above treeline. Chipmunks, picas, marmots, ptarmigans, crickets, spiders, to name a few. And goats, of course :)
Know something else I see a lot on top of mountains? Crows.
Are you telling me to take a hike?
Yeah you need a hike. So does some other green eyed pink princess, but I'm tired of tagging his toes.
Are you trying to tell me I should go the morgue and pick up a dead zombie in a pink tutu and take him backpacking?
I'm so confused. I thought you were gloriously unemployed but now I'm thinking you work at the Apocalypse Hotel California.
Actually, I was referring to some individual that sometimes hangs around here, works the pink princess thing, pretends to be dead but is never a zombie...just have to protect him from snakes.
That's what I want you to think. Both of those two thoughts. I'm waiting for your third thought.........make it a threesome thrupled up.
Yes, if you want to take pictures of the crows there :)
I've denfinitely not spent the time in western mountains. I wasn't thinking of chipmunks being there, but other wildlife yes. Definitely mountain goats. Crows I'd expect. I'd also expect ravens.
Is this a pica? Never heard of that one, had to look it up. So cute.
Yeah that's a pica. Except I spelled it wrong. It's supposed to be pika.
Thanks, figured it was, spelling doesn't matter unless, um, it's the right/wrong word(s) at the right/wrong time.
Btw, just so as you know, it's freaking me out that you changed your profile pic, so much so, that I checked to see if @otherbrandt changed his and nope, all good there. Can't say the new one doesn't suit you in mountains, that is, after inspection with magnification.
I don't have many pictures of me, mainly because I'm camera shy and am totally not a selfie kind of person. My buddy shot this one of me recently and I thought it was decent. @otherbrandt can go suck a dick.
I thought you submitted to the mountain, but even better that you submitted for @brandt's review because he is the Mountain Man Manifico, like M&M's but a thruple not a double.
Have you been inside seen inside such mountains?
That's a delicately creative way of saying you bribed that chipmunk repeatedly to pose for you. How would you know they don't get enough excitement atop a mountain? I don't believe that. @brandt, I think she's full of m&ms and grapes and nuts and cheese and bits of slim jim.
I absolutely did not submit for @brandt's review. Don't be vulgar.
I drove through a mountain, once. But it shat me out its north end.
How was that vulgar? Well, I never. I never. I never knew you don't know the real vulgar me, cuz that wasn't it that I spat.
Gotta pick the right mountain. I have one in mind.
If I go to Crater Lake I can take a hike and then jump in a lake...
that's one way in.
Also jesusfuckingchrist how did we end up with two threads on one post? I feel like @hivebuzz should give us some kind of award for how long we can keep a thread going.
Okay, you can't jump in a crater lake to get in. That doesn't count because it's cheating.
I don't know but your comments have made me laugh cry. I had to pause to do that, couldn't fingerlip fly on keys, never mind writer's block.
I think goats are just camera shy.
I'm starting to think they're in cahoots with Bigfoot...
Maybe I should go to cahoots.
Worth the pain for the view I say!!!
Absolutely! I have plans to injure myself on her again next summer.
😂 go easy!!
Amazing photos! Your dog is sooo cute 😍 How do you call the animal on the last photo? It's not a squirrel, isn't it?
It's a chipmunk! A striped and smaller and somehow even cuter version of a squirrel.
And thanks! My dog is cute, isn't he. And tired, in that photo. Usually he smiles for the camera.