Wildlife encounters

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  1. herzalot

    herzalot iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Laguna Beach
    Name:
    Chris
    Current Bike:
    2020 Revel Rail,Yeti SB 130 LR
    That's pretty goth right there. Or maybe Ozzie...
     
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  2. SnakeCharmer

    SnakeCharmer iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Front Range, San Gabes
    Name:
    Mike, aka "Ssnake"
    Current Bike:
    YT Izzo
    "Ozzie"?
     
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  3. Runs with Scissors

    Runs with Scissors iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    West Anaheim
    Name:
    Mark Whitaker
    Current Bike:
    Giant XTC with pedals
    Ozzie Osbourne. Black Sabbath. He was all about biting the heads off of bats...

    These days he's Feinstein level, but it's the history.
     
  4. SnakeCharmer

    SnakeCharmer iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Front Range, San Gabes
    Name:
    Mike, aka "Ssnake"
    Current Bike:
    YT Izzo
    "Ozzie Osbourne"?
     
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  5. herzalot

    herzalot iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Laguna Beach
    Name:
    Chris
    Current Bike:
    2020 Revel Rail,Yeti SB 130 LR
    Of course.
     
  6. Sasquatch9billion

    Sasquatch9billion iMTB Rockstah

    Name:
    trinidad j. mendez
    You’re thinking of Ozzie Smith, Wild man of the St. Louise Cardinals!

    Ozzy Osbourne is that weird old man with the Whiney wife and kids who are into lame music.

    although, his son does have a Discovery show about hunting Sasquatch. But, all those shows are BS.
     
  7. Danimal

    Danimal iMTB Addict

    Location:
    Mission Viejo
    Name:
    Dan
    Current Bike:
    Epic Evo
    And he still hasn't found the normal sasquatch, but it exists! Just needs to look for @Sasquatch9billion , just saying, he may exist.
     
  8. Sasquatch9billion

    Sasquatch9billion iMTB Rockstah

    Name:
    trinidad j. mendez
    Well, that ‘Squatch is 5’9”, and , a buck-fifty on a good day.
     
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  9. Y-not

    Y-not Well-Known Member

    Location:
    Coarsegold
    Name:
    Steve
    Current Bike:
    Pivot Mach 6, Litespeed SS
    Hanging out with the kiddos

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  10. SnakeCharmer

    SnakeCharmer iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Front Range, San Gabes
    Name:
    Mike, aka "Ssnake"
    Current Bike:
    YT Izzo
    HOW FUN!!! :inlove:
     
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  11. Y-not

    Y-not Well-Known Member

    Location:
    Coarsegold
    Name:
    Steve
    Current Bike:
    Pivot Mach 6, Litespeed SS
    First time outside swimming.
    Yes, I have a chair in the cage and a beer in my hand.
     
  12. Sasquatch9billion

    Sasquatch9billion iMTB Rockstah

    Name:
    trinidad j. mendez
    What do you do with them? Eggs?
     
  13. Y-not

    Y-not Well-Known Member

    Location:
    Coarsegold
    Name:
    Steve
    Current Bike:
    Pivot Mach 6, Litespeed SS
    Eggs is what I have the Chickens for.
    These are for enjoyment. 1 male mallerd and 3 females and the others I do not know what kind they are, yet
     
  14. bvader

    bvader iMTB Rockstah

    Location:
    HB
    Name:
    Mr. Brown
    Not very interesting because I was slow...tail of a massive red...

    Right after "That Turn" on Camarillo.. a couple saw it they were a bit Big Eyes! :)

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  15. Danimal

    Danimal iMTB Addict

    Location:
    Mission Viejo
    Name:
    Dan
    Current Bike:
    Epic Evo
    Nice sighting. And yep, when I saw a Red the other day I was explaining to a guy looking at it what it was and the types of rattles we have here. Doe eyes on him too. :cool:
    In his defense, he was new to the US and didn't know what a rattle snake was :facepalm:. Here in so cal knowing that's survival info for sure.
     
  16. Y-not

    Y-not Well-Known Member

    Location:
    Coarsegold
    Name:
    Steve
    Current Bike:
    Pivot Mach 6, Litespeed SS
    Nothing like a morning shower.

    Someday I will post bike stuff

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  17. Y-not

    Y-not Well-Known Member

    Location:
    Coarsegold
    Name:
    Steve
    Current Bike:
    Pivot Mach 6, Litespeed SS
    I thought there were eyes watching me water the fruit trees.

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  18. PO Magnet

    PO Magnet Newbie with Hope!

    Location:
    Irvine
    Name:
    Calvin
    Current Bike:
    Santa Cruz Hightower
    Just saw a king snake yesterday while riding between Irvine Park and Oaks.King Snake.jpg
     
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  19. MolarM

    MolarM Member

    Location:
    Orange
    Name:
    Mike
    Current Bike:
    Santa Cruz 5010
    Those are so beautiful, I love seeing those guys
     
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  20. Rumpled

    Rumpled Well-Known Member

    Location:
    OC
    Name:
    Jim Martin
    Current Bike:
    2018 Specialized Epic Carbon C
    I saw one last week in Harriet Weider Park near Bolsa Chica. Was running w/o my phone, so no pic. Just before sunset moving through the grass.
     
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  21. Faust29

    Faust29 Moderator

    Location:
    irgendwo
    Name:
    B. Bunny
    Current Bike:
    I gots some bikes.
    Woken from a sound sleep the other night... The wife was yelling into her phone. :laugh:

    I think there were 5 total looking at other video clips... Apparently the artificial turf makes a great coyote back scratcher. They left when she yelled through the camera.

     
  22. Fueledbyex8

    Fueledbyex8 Well-Known Member

    Location:
    Whittier
    Name:
    Albert
    Current Bike:
    Santa Cruz Hightower
    What a beauty :inlove:
     
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  23. herzalot

    herzalot iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Laguna Beach
    Name:
    Chris
    Current Bike:
    2020 Revel Rail,Yeti SB 130 LR
    I saw two sharks with me in the lineup today - about 20' away. Maybe 2 1/2 '- 3' from dorsal fin to tail, so maybe 5-6' fishies.. I decided to get out. I was the only one who seemed concerned enough to get out of the water. As I was paddling for shore, there were no waves to help push me. I was visualizing a scene from Jaws imagining people on the beach encouraging me to paddle harder, but ultimately losing that battle...although these little fishies could probably only take a foot off and not swallow me whole. I made it to the beach unscathed and with all of my toes.

    After about 30 minutes. I got back in. There they were again. Nobody was phased (or fazed) - the surfers just moved away a little. One started calling "here sharky sharky sharky..." I stayed out there with the other surfers (and presumably, with the sharks) for another 30 minutes or so. Didn't see the sharks again. I am sure they saw me.

    Sorry - no pics.

    And no - they weren't dolphins. Dolphins have horizontal tails and a blowhole. I saw some of them yesterday.
     
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  24. Runs with Scissors

    Runs with Scissors iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    West Anaheim
    Name:
    Mark Whitaker
    Current Bike:
    Giant XTC with pedals
    Drunk naked female swimming?

    Okay, but were they fazed????

    Sorry. Had to.:Roflmao
     
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  25. herzalot

    herzalot iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Laguna Beach
    Name:
    Chris
    Current Bike:
    2020 Revel Rail,Yeti SB 130 LR
    No not the drunk female swimming part. The boy paddling his raft for shore.

    Ooopsie on fazed. I knew that. But I was also concerned with their sequencing. :oops:
     
  26. da big hills

    da big hills iMTB Rockstah

    Location:
    pearl harbor
    Name:
    cagey
    Current Bike:
    enduro 29
    I used to beach dive, the same place surfers like. I go out on the point because it has a better bottom structure. I would be right under you guys on the way out. A lot of horned sharks sitting on the bottom, leopard sharks always moving by, and of course guitar skates.
     
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  27. DangerDirtyD

    DangerDirtyD iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    CA
    Name:
    Chicken Nugget
    Current Bike:
    2018 Guerrilla Gravity SMASH
    Gnarly!
     
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  28. Y-not

    Y-not Well-Known Member

    Location:
    Coarsegold
    Name:
    Steve
    Current Bike:
    Pivot Mach 6, Litespeed SS
    This thing was 7' long. . . . . .



















    Not

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  29. evdog

    evdog iMTB Rockstah

    Location:
    San diego
    Name:
    Evan S
    Baby coyote on the trail last night. Backed off and even stopped to give it space to get off the trail but it just kept running forward.

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  30. Rumpled

    Rumpled Well-Known Member

    Location:
    OC
    Name:
    Jim Martin
    Current Bike:
    2018 Specialized Epic Carbon C
    So cute!
     
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