More Mountain Goats of the Clark’s Fork Canyon

I took a leisurely hike the other day with a friend.  I wanted to return to a circle of rocks overlooking the Clark’s Fork Canyon and the river below.  The rocks were piled on a boulder precipice, a strange place for them.  They were large, obviously put together by people, big enough for one person [...]

Mountain goat attacks and other anomalies

Do we usually think of mountain goats as dangerous animals?  Should we put up signs for these goats like I see here in grizzly country, with warnings for hikers to carry pepper spray even when grizzlies aren’t in the environment? Today I was at the museum where I volunteer in their natural history lab.  My [...]

Mountain Goats of the Clarks Fork

Yesterday I took a walk along the plateau above the Clarks Fork ravine.  The edge is a sheer 1000′ drop tot he river below.  I sat and glassed for the mountain goats that I’d heard ‘hung’ around the cliff edges.  Almost ready to give up, I suddenly saw a small white dot that looked like [...]