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Too bad you couldn't have gotten a better picture of what appears to have been a royal yak.
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kytels":10lvw2sf said:
Royal Yak? wtf?
That was not a good wildlife picture. You needed a big zoom, and I got the picture from the rear, so difficult to identify. The guides think it was some kind of goat.
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longshanks":2xlvou51 said:
I remember Tony told me immediately after seeing it that a guide, perhaps, told him it was a yak. So, naturally, I googled yaks in Alaska and learned they do indeed exist there, having been introduced from Asia. However, I've since decided this is an Alaska mountain goat from the shape of the tail. What threw me off was not just Tony at first calling it a yak, but also saying it's fur was long and shaggy.
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Is that Yeti supposed to be carrying off a skier? :roll:rfarren":d07q5s0u said:No it's an Alaskan Yeti:Admin":d07q5s0u said:
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Admin knows that clicking on a pic enlarges it in these forums. I wonder if everyone knows that.Admin":1gvwlm8k said:
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The 3rd time is the charm. Your picture looks a lot better now.rfarren":ebnc2drd said:It is carrying a skier. You can't ski forever you know... if you go 2000m past the finish line he'll get you.
That is unless you can out ski him and not fall:
There was a stuffed mountain goat in Alyeska's mountaintop lodge:
The color, profile and shaggy fur likely fit what we saw. But we were not close (pic is zoomed at 4.5x and still poorly resolved) and we were heliskiers, not wildlife experts. The first spotter thought it was a polar bear. I knew that was not possible, but I also knew from my summer Alaska trip in 2001 that many Alaskan grizzlies are blond, and note the stuffed goat has a hump behind the shoulders like a grizzly. Others speculated it was a yak and I passed that info on to kytels. It may have been the next day when the lead guide Henry said it was a goat.
The color, profile and shaggy fur likely fit what we saw. But we were not close (pic is zoomed at 4.5x and still poorly resolved) and we were heliskiers, not wildlife experts. The first spotter thought it was a polar bear. I knew that was not possible, but I also knew from my summer Alaska trip in 2001 that many Alaskan grizzlies are blond, and note the stuffed goat has a hump behind the shoulders like a grizzly. Others speculated it was a yak and I passed that info on to kytels. It may have been the next day when the lead guide Henry said it was a goat.
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Could a girl make one of those out of 2 sizes of cardboard box and some sugar cubes, do you think? Crocker could probably use something like that on his front lawn to commemerate this occasion. A few branches cut just so from that too perfect looking tree of his and I should be ready to start work here. \
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Google provided pictures of a yak's tail and a mountain goat's tail with which I can demonstrate why the latter is the wiser choice here. It also showed the goats' coats at various lengths which can approach the common length of a yak's coat. I like the idea of a bunch of yaks runnin' around Alaska helping to preserve a portion of what has become rare in the wild in Asia, and also giving skiers something else to think about out there in a world belonging more to its year round inhabitants than to anyone venturing thru. I often think of my property as belonging more to its squirrel population than to me, because those guys are here all the time, except of course when they go off to the neighbors to collect nuts from the adjoining properties and return to plant some here. So I'm now overseeing their soon to be opening new supermarkets on these premises.Admin":hws03qkt said:
Cropped picture, not all that helpful:
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Skrad":246k1gbh said:
You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear...it's a fackin Goat