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Dam that tastes good! #7643 09/21/10 02:10 PM
Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 8,533 Likes: 107 Fresno, CA S Steve C OP
OP Steve C S Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 8,533 Likes: 107 Fresno, CA	This is running around the Internet... It looks like the ibex are licking something off the dam. Possibly something like salts leaching out of the concrete. From SuperTopo: Dam Ibex climbing. One post says, "The dam is at Lago Baitone in Brescia, Italy" Pictures: European Ibex practice their balance on the face of a rock dam in Italy. No fear. From Prairie State Outdoors Web log Here's a YouTube video: More... Another image, from Semplicemente Stambecchi... aggiunte immagini 28-09-08 Click for full-size image.

Re: Dam that tastes good! Steve C #7648 09/21/10 02:57 PM
Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 2,251 Likes: 1 Humbug Reach (Pop. 3) wagga
wagga Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 2,251 Likes: 1 Humbug Reach (Pop. 3)	5.4? Lots of runout, though. Verum audaces non gerunt indusia alba. - Ipsi dixit MCMLXXII

Re: Dam that tastes good! wagga #7655 09/21/10 07:20 PM
Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 583 Glendale, CA AlanK
AlanK Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 583 Glendale, CA	Are those Italian climbers still putting those fake ibexes onto the dam again?

Re: Dam that tastes good! Steve C #7675 09/22/10 10:01 AM
Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 695 Blacklick, OH (formerly SoCal) CaT
CaT Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 695 Blacklick, OH (formerly SoCal)	I frankly wouldn't have believed the still photos if I hadn't seen one of those videos. Amazing! And with hooves!! CaT If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it. - Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)

Re: Dam that tastes good! CaT #7719 09/23/10 10:11 AM
Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 31 Huntington Beach, CA B BiletChick
BiletChick B Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 31 Huntington Beach, CA	CaT (David) Kinda looks like your avatar pic. You been climbing in Italy lately? LOL!!! Picasa Web Albums

Re: Dam that tastes good! BiletChick #7725 09/23/10 02:30 PM
Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 695 Blacklick, OH (formerly SoCal) CaT
CaT Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 695 Blacklick, OH (formerly SoCal)	Well I'll be dammed! CaT If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it. - Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)

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