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Mt. Goat on the Snake
« on: November 09, 2009, 07:30:35 PM »
We had a jet boat deer hunting on the Snake river 3-4 mi. west of Lyons Ferry, first time in that area for us. On the South side of the river on a cliff ledge is this goat ??
2 1/2 days, same ledge...faces right ...faces left.. lies down following day...same routine.

any way may not be a surprise too you goat experts but I had know clue we would see a goat there.   
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Re: Mt. Goat on the Snake
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2009, 07:48:00 PM »
Surprise to me and I've spent a fair amount of time out there. Very cool pic...I may have to head out there one of these days to see if I can spot him/some.

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Re: Mt. Goat on the Snake
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2009, 08:41:18 PM »
For me that is unheard of. :dunno:
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Re: Mt. Goat on the Snake
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2009, 08:47:13 PM »
I have never heard of them out there, but I am no expert so...  :dunno:
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Re: Mt. Goat on the Snake
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2009, 09:13:11 PM »
Kind of a surprising place to see a goat - weird.  Like you said, maybe other guys know about them.  I never heard of it, though.

I saw a 5 point bull when I was deer hunting out by Wawawai one time on the Snake.  Never even heard of an elk out there and could just see the tip of it's antlers in the brushy bottom of a draw when I was deer hunting.  Since I didn't expect to ever see an elk there, I had about a quarter second of having a heart attack before I could see the entire shape of the antlers.  With just the tips visible and not able to see the rest of the antlers or the body of the elk until I got my glasses on it, I had a really brief moment of thinking that I was looking at a 40 inch wide deer.  Literally a quarter second until I properly identified it, but thinking it was a deer my heart stopped, my stomach did a flip and I had to pick my lower jaw up off the ground and shove my eyeballs back in their sockets. :)  Maybe it wandered in from the Blues?

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Re: Mt. Goat on the Snake
« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2009, 10:59:01 PM »
i would say that is not a common place for goats, cool pic though

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Re: Mt. Goat on the Snake
« Reply #6 on: November 09, 2009, 11:20:12 PM »
i had just heard about that goat this weekend visiting some friends at their elk camp. they were telling me about it, pretty crazy and unheard of

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Re: Mt. Goat on the Snake
« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2009, 05:47:45 PM »
That one goat has been there for about 3 years. There has been rumor to move him closer th others. Oregon has been releasing some recently, this last spring the number released was 18.  They work there way north finding good habitat as move. Some stick others move on. We have been wathing #36 and #39 for awhile in my unit.  Not all still have their orange ear tags. Have pictures of one others are just white dots. It is fun to see them and the country they call home. I don't think they move far in winter.

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Re: Mt. Goat on the Snake
« Reply #8 on: November 10, 2009, 09:57:21 PM »
ive hunted down there at ayer boat launch for the past 14 yrs.  i saw this goat about 5 yrs ago.  there is a cattle ranch right above him in the flats.  according to the cattle rancher the goat gets all swelled up when his cows come into heat.  he said that it got so bad one year that the goat was going through the fences.  so they loaded up the horses and went out and team rope the thing.  they didnt hurt the goat but they loaded into a stock trailer and hauld it back to the bluffs.  this is the gods honest truth.  just look for the two old cattle ranchers with huge mustaches and ask them about the goat. 

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Re: Mt. Goat on the Snake
« Reply #9 on: November 10, 2009, 10:42:04 PM »
 Thanks I knew somebody had too know something about him...that's a great story....he needs a companion  ;)
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Re: Mt. Goat on the Snake
« Reply #10 on: November 10, 2009, 10:45:44 PM »
cool thanks for sharin long ways away but looks like a nice billy
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Re: Mt. Goat on the Snake
« Reply #11 on: November 10, 2009, 11:44:01 PM »
There was a mountain goat hanging around east of the Dalles, Oregon.  Sometimes you could see him from 84.  He was collared and came from the Wallowas.  Last time I heard about him, he was wandering around some rock in Washington.  :dunno:

Can't decide if he got a crazy idea and swam the Columbia, or trotted across that railroad bridge right there.  :chuckle:
« Last Edit: November 14, 2009, 12:35:46 AM by longstevo »
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Re: Mt. Goat on the Snake
« Reply #12 on: November 10, 2009, 11:52:24 PM »
i go to the dalles about 1-2 times a week i saw him almost everytime, i even got to watch him drink out of ine of the ponds. he was a great billy. then he just stopped showin himself i have heard 2 things fish and game tranked him and relocted him and the other like you said. he swam across the columbia and is now up in washington.
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Re: Mt. Goat on the Snake
« Reply #13 on: November 12, 2009, 10:52:09 PM »
That is so weird I was fishing on the Klick last fall and there was a mountain goat above the fisher hill bridge about a mile from the mouth.  He was in the same general area every day.  I told some people about it and they said it had swam the columbia.  The story came from a reliable source, don't know how else it could have gotten there, cool to see though.

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Re: Mt. Goat on the Snake
« Reply #14 on: November 13, 2009, 08:35:46 AM »
I seem to remember a thread about the Klick goats last year. There's also the goat at the mouth of Dead Canyon. Boy that would be crazy to jump deer hunting. God goats are wierd.

 


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