Cool Experience in the Colorado Mountains

[sanchius]

Last week my kids and I went exploring around some of the
high-altitude lakes, ghost towns and abandoned mine sites
between Breckenridge and Leadville, Colorado with our FJ60 and
Syncro Vanagon camper. As we pulled into the Blue Lakes area,
a bunch of baby mountain goats came off the hillside and started
walking around the cars.

In total there were about a dozen. These normally are _very_
shy creatures and they are usually only seen as a small white dot
far away on the mountainside. You can see how close we were,
these were not taken with a telephoto lens. I have never seen
anything like this before.

Lawrence

 

[sogafarm]

Way cool! I've never seen mountain goats that close, especially the young ones. Was this near Breck?

Nice Vanagon as well. Looks in great shape.

 

[Rob Faucett]

Rad. That first pic is unreal. I bet your eyes were just as wide!!

 

[paulwolf350]

who is the dude on the bonnet hope you didnt run him over.

Paul

 

[cbmontgo]

Very cool. Any more pics you can post up of the trip? Sounds like a great time...

 

[bigndn]

Way cool! I've only been that close to some once. I was flyfishing an alpine lake in my float tube. I got out to take a whiz and when I got back into my belly boat and started stripping line, two adults came out of the bushes and went to licking up my salt. They were neat to watch!

 

[Joe_E]

That looks like it was a really cool experience.
Something not likely to ever happen again.
Nice to see you are a fellow 8B2 brother as well.

 

[Trapper50cal]

!!!

Cute little buggers

Oh and btw, Colorado Rocks.(although I may be biased from living here 37yrs)

 

[bajafgl]

Nice body modifications. Cool pics. Colorado kills.

 

[87 HJ60]

Those mountain goats probably saw your Land Cruiser from the distance and went up to you for a closer look. They just wanted a close look at the coolest vehicle ever built.....

 

[IndianDoc]

Those mountain goats probably saw your Land Cruiser from the distance and went up to you for a closer look. They just wanted a close look at the coolest vehicle ever built.....

I'd guess rabies, makes animals do things they would not do under normal circumstance. And these m goats are sure acting strange. But wonderful situation and awesome that you were able to document and share with us. Thanks again , and no I don't think they have rabies, just curious.

 

[Front Range 4x4]

Curious young goats that haven't learned to fear yet. I've seen quite a few lately myself. Another thing to watch for are fawn on the trail, I have a pic somewhere I'll try to find and post. A fawn was curled up in a rut on the trail, would have run it over if I was able to do a tight turn which I'm glad I wasn't able to. Relocated it off the trail.

Colorado rocks!

 

[mtrdrms]

That's amazing. I have a gray squirrel that lives in my yard...oh and a few starlings...

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