Prettiest/ Most spectacular thing you have seen in the outdoors.

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red fox squirrel hunting. It looked so graceful

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What does a red fox squirrel hunt?

I was fishing Lake Verrett this Saturday, running my boat in the lake along the cypress trees and a Bald Eagle circled ahead and dove down grabbed a fish about 20 feet from my boat. It was pretty awesome.

I'm sure I'll think of something else later.

My car, after climbing the Regular route up the Fairview Dome. Started at sunrise and got back to the rig after dark. I'm not a praying man, but I'm pretty sure I made a few deals with the spaghetti monster to get back alive.

Climbing partner was less than no help so I had to do it by myself, no topo (since he knew the way...pfft). Pretty sure I made about 50 life saving decisions, all but about 6 were luck. Those 6 were the times I waited on the party behind us because there was no way I could make a call.

The descent ropes didn't even make it to the ground. Just rapped off of the end of them. I think I cried when we got to the car, a bloody pulp.

I was hunting along a canal that had about 40 wood ducks in it. There were always a mess of them taking off or landing. Pretty badass, of course I was deer hunting at the time.

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DownshiftAndFloorIt

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Wanna fish tomorrow evening?

Changed my life. I thought I was a climber before that. After that I knew I was just a lucky bastard from the flat lands. That was my last traditional (protection) route I did. Moved from Cali after that, dreams shattered. Like I stared in the face of the death and saw precisely how I didn't want to die. Felt like death was just trying to pull me off of that rock the entire day, I was just fighting like hell not to succumb.

Funny story, about 1/3 of the way up I was crouched down on a ledge fixing an anchor and this dude just says 'BOO' behind me. He's extremely lucky I didn't flail his arse right off of that cliff. He was climbing it without ropes or anything, free-solo.

boat load of topless on the back of an offshore boat that passed by the rig we were fishing/diving!

peregrine grabbing a teal in flight.

eagle grabbing a snow goose cripple. pissed of me chessie btw.

about 40 tarpon free jumping and rolling.

me son handling his bird dog and flushing then shooting a bird after point. he trained dog.. he was 12.

I guess these arent pretty or spectacular, but they are notable.


once while boiling crawfish, a few got out and were crawling in the yard. all of a sudden, a hawk swooped down and grabbed one about 10 feet away from where we were standing. pretty cool.

saw a bob cat go after a yearling once. that was pretty cool.

saw some does fighting. all out knock down, drag out fighting too. it was crazy.

saw a bobcat go after a fish. that was really odd.
also saw a bob cat climb a tree which was neat.

I saw a buffalo on my grandmaws property. it had gotten out of a high fence place a few miles a way and wandered onto her property.

I saw a doe stand up in the back up a truck after after being shot an hour before. it fell over the side and flopped a little more.

saw a two headed turtle that a guy had caught in St. Bernard.

saw a bass someone caught that had eaten a bird.

saw "space trash fall from the sky one morning. it lit up the entire sky in a flash while we were driving to our lease. we had no idea what it was but when we got back to the house the news said space trash had fallen near us.


Green Jeans...

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saw a bass someone caught that had eaten a bird.

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my buddy caught a bass that had done this