UL Creatures

On snowfield, Tateyama, Japan

Kansai region, Japan

High Sierra King Snake on route to Lake Vernon, Yosemite

Unknown insect trailside, Achenbach Canyon, Organ Mountains, NM

Jay, I believe that is the California Mountain Kingsnake which is different from a common kingsnake. If you are into snakes, that is a beauty.

–B.G.–

Here is one that you don't see often.

This is a wolverine near Stanley Idaho. Night illumination by headlamp.

–B.G.–

Bob,

That is a phenomenal photo.

Any more info? As a huge photo geek I'd love to know camera/lens/zoom post-processing… really anything.

In fact, in going over this thread I've seen very little in terms of technical info on cameras/lenses used or anything else for that matter. Let's try to change that in future posts!

I love UL because it lets me go farther. Going farther lets me see more of the sort of things in this thread. Let us BPLers help each other capture and share those moments for posterity!

Thank you, Bradley.

Canon EOS 7D
shutter 1/13
f/4.5
iso 1600
Canon L lens EF 100-400mm IS at 170mm
no synchronized flash — Zebralight headlamp for this one
remote shutter cable

Most people posting here are ultralight backpackers. As such, the use of heavy camera equipment is kind of out of the question for backpacking use. Most people are using a sub-one-pound camera.

I fight that trend. By lightening up my basic backpacking gear, it allows me to carry some good/heavy camera equipment to get the shot. My basic load is 10-11 lbs of base weight, 10-11 lbs of food and expendables, and 10.5 lbs of camera gear.

–B.G.–

Wow Bob thats an awesome picture. I actually used to live in Stanley (well near there, about 20 miles away), and was never lucky enough to see one. I had heard that there are some in the Sawtooths, but never saw one on any of my treks there

I was on my way toward Yellowstone, and I decided to take a detour through Boise and then north. You know that you are out in the boonies when Stanley is the population center for miles around, and it has a human population of only 100. Lots of the current Forest Service data on wolverines is coming from the Stanley area, so that's why I set up a night camera rig. Imagine my surprise during the middle of the night when my bell rings that tells me that some intruder is present.

–B.G.–

Ooh, I've never come across a three-color king. Here's a foothill edition, more of a li'l prince snake.

Cheers,

Rick

Beehive Meadow, Yosemite

American Crocodile

Ctenosuar Iguana

Tree frog

White Throated Capuchin

Howler Monkey

Frog Eating Bat

Three Toed Sloth

Beach Piggy

This is a fantastic thread
Hope I get this right – haven't tried posting pics before but I resized them so not too big.

Kook

The next two are a pair. The long shot shows the West Cape Howe hut on the Bibbulmun Track in Western Australia. The second shows the kangaroo (big buck – would have been at least 6 foot tall) that was there for the whole time we were – about half an hour. We went within about 15-20 feet of him but didn't want to disturb him. He just watched us the whole time.

White Faced Capuchin Monkey, Manuel Antonio NP, Costa Rica

Sloth

This is a bighorn sheep lamb. It is in its first summer, so it is still following its mother around.

–B.G.–

Mean Alligator lizard, Deer Lake Emigrant Wilderness

A baby lemming

When hiking the JMT this summer we saw many "UL creatures" and my kids took many photos of deer, butterflies, bugs, lizards, etc. One amazing sight this year were the frogs hopping on the ice of Wanda Lake at 11,426 ft right below Muir Pass. My favorite photos is this one of two mating frogs in amplexus on the ice. They seem to be frozen in more than one sense of the word.

Manfred

Shy beasts. They stood stock still as we descended towards them, vanishing silently as we passed a boulder which obscured our view for a few seconds.

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They grow to about three feet long, 18" at the withers.

After a pass on the jmt.

~ 6:30pm last Friday in Castle Rock State Park. Walking down the trail alone with a rock face to my right; a rattler rattled directly in my ear. I flew 10 feet forward and landed in this guys lap (the rattle snake dropped off the rock where I'd been and slithered into the brush on the other side of the trail).

Not so UL as this bird was huge.

Sorry that I could not get a better quality pic… it was probably a snowy owl, which are considered "Critically endangered" in Finland. We saw this bird eating at least two lemmings within only 15 minutes last week so perhaps Sabine's "guy from Finland" got a date with a hot chick :-o

Jim, I believe that is a California Mountain Kingsnake, Lampropeltis zonata. If you don't stick the Mountain in there, people assume that you are talking about a Common Kingsnake which has no red.

If you like snakes, that one is a real beauty.

–B.G.–

From Costa Rica:

Blue Morphos Butterfly – all over the place in CR

Wandering Spider – biologist caught it while we were in the rain forest – venomous and one of only a few spiders that pose a threat to humans

Leaf cutter ants – a lot of fun to watch

Mountain goat in Alpine Lakes Wilderness near Lake Ingalls