Animal encounters skiing??

[Crehm]

Surfers have sharks, wakeboarders have alligators, skiiers have...?

At least in SE michigan the scariest thing i have run into was a skunk on the ski hill at night, have you guys had any sweet animal encounters on the slopes??

 

[Balto]

deer once in spring

squirrels all the time

 

[mode2n]

I once ran into a lynx... haha

 

[monkatizer]

i have heard of someone hitting a dear, but personally, i have seen mountain lions!

 

[FLBP]

Cougars are always on the prowl for rich young white men.

 

[Parrish]

I saw this mouse once when skiing snowbird. I went to grab him then I heard I lifty yell "THOSE ARE ENDANGERED" so I skied away really fast

 

[p-fo]

I saw a pine marten once. Most things are hibernating during the winter in the mountains where I ski. I've seen plenty of chipmunks and a marmot on Hood in the summer though.

 

[Keith.]

a moose chilling at the side of a run.

 

[SHastatahoe]

Man.... The most dangerous animal of all.

 

[TACO-DOG.exe]

a bear walked out onto the landing of a jump in the credits of revolver.

makes me chuckle every time

 

[YewTard]

Snowbird in the spring is kinda hilarious when all the chipmunks start popping out of their holes. It's kinda like playing 'whack a mole' with your skis.

 

[k-fred]

there's a video somewhere on ns i think where a guy is skiing backcounrty when he get hit by a turkey.

 

[SPskier543]

a ferret when i was on thaynes at pc, and a moose in the backcountry between canyons and pc

 

[theWIZARD]

Moose at Sugarloaf.

 

[Keith.]

its TC season 1 I think

 

[TheTristanator]

i've seen the wolf pack...

 

[malonius_funk]

i was skiing next to the t-bar at breck and i came around a tree and there was this cool looking fox like 3 feet from my ski. i surprised it and it surprised me. pretty cool

 

[Jpurd]

I see a lot of squirrels where I ski and birds

 

[monkatizer]

yes, it flew into shane's hand

 

[introvert]

I once saw a Tom Wallsich. I tried to take a picture but before I could get my camera out he was gone

 

[steezy.stew]

eye trip

 

[chuck_testa]

I have never seen a gator wakeboarding. any way I saw a bear at hunter mtn a couple years ago.

 

[penguin_steeze]

.

 

[gaper-raper]

manbearpig. scary as shit

 

[Davy.Crockett]

chipmunks

 

[lukemeahan.]

Lots of moose.

 

[artrud]

at JH, was on a cat track, that took a hard left around rock wall......literally, face-to-face with a huge Moose. Moose immediatelty turned around and ran away. live to ski another day

 

[CRiP]

saw a ton of wolf tracks on this trail in killington that no one had skiied on yet

 

[Chubz.]

I see squirrels all the time...its such a rush when they jump right in front of you

 

[EricaMN.]

i see these albino squirrel things all the time. i think they're some sort of a ferret

 

[traylortrash]

i hit a squirrel once... it was quite the experience

 

[TACO-DOG.exe]

correct

 

[wesley.]

skiing has jabronis

 

[Clark_Griswold]

this. But seriously a turkey and a few deer

 

[SteezoSaurus]

Ran into a moose while I was skinning once. Thank god I was wearing Depends.

 

[ski-or-die]

seriously be aware of cougars they dont don't hibernate my cousin says he saw one at sunshine when he was high on mushrooms, thought he was just trippin but they closed the chair...

 

[deathcookie]

I saw a kid i was working with slice a mouse in half with his edge on purpose

 

[Skibumsmith]

rabbits and porcupines

 

[skier_boy26]

friend ran over a squirrel.

encountered a young black bear once hopping in the deep powder

 

[mountainviper]

Saw a bear from the lift in a patch of trees between two runs at Killy. Also have seen moose at Killy. Lots. Got chased by a mountain lion in the backcountry. Weirdest encounter though was a hedgehog on a groomer at the canyons. Thing was jus chillin. Oh yeah and the infamous Alta rams. Everybody sees those those if ya hike though.

 

[Avifarer]

Was tree skiing one time, turned around a tree and there was a lynx sitting there. just starred at us didnt even move. saw a wolf at the hill yesterday.

 

[PartyHon]

moosesnowshoe hare ran inbetween my skis while i was pow skiing

 

[Montana_Hoodrat]

A drunk snowboarder. Scared the shit outta me.

 

[Jahrassicpark]

Moose

 

[skiP.E.I.]

I've startled many ptarmigan and snowshoe hares and I've seen caribou on the ski hill. A moose broke it's leg in a gully on the ski hill and someone from natural resources had to come and shoot it.

 

[pelle_munch]

bears, moose, foxes, rabbits, mice, eagles, mountain lyons, lynx, marmots, squirrels, elk, deer

 

[ya_frizz]

i've come across an echidna and a wombat

 

[jorb.co]

I had a I JUST HIT A FUCKING TURKEY moment twice on the same run. Late in the season the hill fills up with all these big round fat bird things cause its mating season or whatever. At the top i was coming around a fallen tree and one flew out from inside the roots right into my leg, then another one grazed my head near the bottom and it jumped out of a tree. So wish i had a helmet cam on.

 

[SickJib_Brit]

They are these things called grouse.. Haha, that Line TC episode was soo funny

 

[binyinninja]

A kea wanted to eat my mates lunch once. Another kea tried to eat our car...

 

[p-fo]

That would be a pine marten in its winter coat. Or ermine. Which may be the same thing...