Posted on 01/18/2025 12:47:52 AM PST by thecodont
Every year, thousands of climbers test their skills on Mount Shasta, California’s fifth-highest peak and the second-highest volcano in the Cascade Range. In 2023, around 5,000 to 6,000 people attempted the roughly 14,180-foot climb to the summit, with about half reaching the top.
In December, rangers from the U.S. Forest Service encountered an unexpected climber: a goose attempting to summit Mount Shasta. According to a Jan. 12 post on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest’s Facebook page, Forest Service rangers Nick Meyers and Eric Falconer of the Mount Shasta Avalanche Center were on routine patrol when they came upon “their first attempted ascent of Mount Shasta by a goose.” Found at around 10,000 feet in the Old Ski Bowl area, the goose appeared to have flown off course and was described in a social media post as a “particularly unprepared Mount Shasta climber.”
“Upon our rangers’ arrival, the climber (flyer?) had on only one layer of down and was neither prepared for the temperature nor overnight camping,” the post elaborated.
Meyers, the lead climbing ranger and director of the Mount Shasta Avalanche Center, described the rescue as a rare and memorable experience.
“From the very first moment we identified the situation, we acted on instinct: to help out,” Meyers told SFGATE. “The first step was to catch it. I didn’t think I’d actually catch the goose, but as boys being boys, we tried.”
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I saw a moose rescue yesterday...on line...They sawed a path to the shore...and it worked. The moose disappeared into the woods desperately seeking to make friends with a nice warm moose.
I owned geese for years as pets and “Guard animals”.
They can be very aggressive and hurt you.
At the same time they can be very good companions.
Separated from the flock which left in November, the goose needed company. Hence, the gooducken, nicely cooked by John Madden’s good friend from Weed.
A real wild goose chase!
Used to float a creek with inner tubes.
Along the way was a pond in a field occupied by Canada geese.
They hammered us.
Surprised? That's strange. His instinctive response indicates that this was just another walk in the park.
Can a goose generate enough lift at 10000 ft to get airborne?
Maybe it was trying to get into the mouth of the volcano and work its way to the center of the earth. Was its name Gertrude? :/
lol. Nice.
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