Chamois

Just skinning up the hill and found these guys, on skis/skins you're quiet enough to get close, normally they'd take cover when they heard you coming.

That's nice. Do they taste like chicken?

Wow the one and only time i`ve seen chamios was in Wengen on a hike up Kleine Scheidegg.But a chap in the village kept them as pets or were they pets :shock:



AJ Adele

actually, they're not the only dumb animals in those woods, Air Glaciers winched a couple of Belgians out at the end of last week who'd taken a short cut :roll:

Nice pics. Spotted a small herd of them a few years in open ground above the piste in Flaine. A minor avalanche had left a patch of bare grass on the side of the mountain and they were grazing it untroubled by the skiers passing by on the slope below.

As regards dumb animals, I remember one time on Elba island, walking down from the highest mountain, we took a wrong turning and ending up across on the next hill. The only problem was, it was still smouldering from a major forest fire and it was pretty scary making our way through the scorched forest. We eventually found our way out into a carpark where a number of fire crews were taking a well earned break. I'm sure they thought we were mad. Even though we were there by accident, I am sure everybody would have assumed we were complete idiots if we had run into trouble or needed rescuing and perhaps, on reflection, we were :oops:

Wanderer wrote:I am sure everybody would have assumed we were complete idiots if we had run into trouble or needed rescuing and perhaps, on reflection, we were :oops:

doesn't sound even nearly as stupid as this pair to be honest, they must have been here all week, ridden up on the lift each day, I can't see how they failed to notice it was a cliff face :roll: Still, it's given the locals something to talk about :lol:

The little blighters allways hanging around Cluse Mijoux all most tame last week saw them browsing right next to D472 main rd.
Goff

Saw this from my room in Jasper last March!!


Would like you all to see it too, but technophobe that I am, I cant figure out how to attach photo!! :oops:

It was an elk by the way!!!!!