One wrong step

[Clint_S]

Strange sight on the way to work yesterday up the Duncan.
This elk had apparently tried to cross this avalanche chute somewhere up the mountain but had lost his footing.
Not sure how far he had tumbled and slid down but he was pretty busted up by the time he hit the road.

http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv133/Stubby_01/elk/Capture_zps7hmtim43.jpg

[The Hermit]

Hummmmm I wonder

[BgBlkDg]

I get your drift, but, don't think so.

The Duncan is a bit remote, Elk and other hooved beasts DO fall and are hit by slides, drown and even lightning gets a few, so, I think Clint is correct on this.

VERY, VERY few locals there now will shoot an Elk like this and I cannot see any poacher leaving it to rot.

The *other* possibility is not likely in that valley.

[Clint_S]

You can stop with the conspiracy theories.
This elk hit the ice at some point way up the hill and was probably doing 90kmh when he hit the road. Wasn't a solid bone in his head and one antler completely snapped off.

[BgBlkDg]

That was my point, have found elk dead from various non-human causes in the Kootenays several times.

[wideopenthrottle]

a few years ago we found a 3x4 elk head on the bank of the bull river...it was on the far side almost directly across from where sulfur creek joins in....from the far side we thought it might be a nice deer head but after we went a km up stream to cross and then back to it we saw it was a rag horn elk (with no season), we left it...I did grab the one ivory tooth that was left...we did wonder if it was shot by mistake and left but of course we have to consider the possibility that it just died from some other accident or natural cause...it happens more than most people realize....

[Stone Sheep Steve]

What's up with the square box in the pic?

[Linksman313]

Found more than a handful of deer frozen falling through thin ice while winter prowling in the Boundary this year, toughest winter in a few years around here.

[nazarow]

What's up with the square box in the pic?

Im assuming zoomed in?

As unfortunate as it was still interesting coming across things like that. Some aren't dealt the best hands...

[325]

How far up the Duncan?? We have a cabin up there

[Bugle M In]

Maybe the Bull created the Slide in the 1st place????
Just like a skier, snow border or skidoo-er??
But yup, mother nature doesn't care whether you are 2 legged or 4 legged.

[325]

I think avalanches and falls are the biggest causes of mountain goat mortality. Also significant for mountain sheep.

[Clint_S]

The avalanche was there first in this case but I did find a goat once in an avy chute up ferguson by trout lake so it definitely happens.
It's at 6km.

[Stone Sheep Steve]

I think avalanches and falls are the biggest causes of mountain goat mortality. Also significant for mountain sheep.

We found two dead stone rams close to each other while sheep hunting a few years ago. There was no snow left but there were some remnants
of twisted trees which made us think avalanche.

Pity as one was a 10 yr old broomed ram and the other was 7 yr old twister.

[swampthing]

That's a pretty cool find Clint!! Cool country in there. When I lived in Kamloops that was my goat huntin area

[The Hermit]

Ahhh yes UP the Duncan. I read it as up in Duncan thus my skepticism.

[IslandBC]

What's up with the square box in the pic?
Bad photoshop ha

[Busterpayton54]

Those look like kitty cat prints in the snow?

[Pemby_mess]

The avalanche was there first in this case but I did find a goat once in an avy chute up ferguson by trout lake so it definitely happens.
It's at 6km.

I'm just curious;

What is it that lead you to believe it had slipped and tumbled vs having been involved in the avalanche itself?

[RiverOtter]

Those look like kitty cat prints in the snow?

Yep, they do.

[Clint_S]

Yep we pushed a good sized Bobby off the carcass.
The picture seems to be causing some confusion so let me clarify. Obviously Photoshop (quite the sleuth islandbc ) it's called an inset, a process wherein you can combine two pictures in one frame. The picture in the back is the slide and deposition, approximately 2.5m in depth, the inset is the carcass which couldn't be captured in the same frame. I know the slide was there first because we drove through the thing for 3 weeks prior.

[IslandBC]

Yep we pushed a good sized Bobby off the carcass.
The picture seems to be causing some confusion so let me clarify. Obviously Photoshop (quite the sleuth islandbc ) it's called an inset, a process wherein you can combine two pictures in one frame. The picture in the back is the slide and deposition, approximately 2.5m in depth, the inset is the carcass which couldn't be captured in the same frame. I know the slide was there first because we drove through the thing for 3 weeks prior.
Sorry bud , bad joke. Couldn't resist