Previous :: Next Topic |
Author |
Message |
Noheaperture Nohea
Joined: 25 Aug 2018 Posts: 130 | TRs | Pics Location: Issaquah |
So on a few occasions this summer, primarily near rivers in the mountains, I’ve noticed a consistent sound comparable to someone dropping a bowling ball on a parking garage ground.a deep thud that bounces and vibrates to a stop. It happened repeatedly when I was fishing along the Clearwater in Idaho and a few times near home around middle fork as well. Does anyone have any explanation what I might have been hearing? The only logical thing I could think of is active mining nearby but that’s pure speculation.
|
Back to top |
|
|
Slugman It’s a Slugfest!
Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Posts: 16874 | TRs | Pics
|
|
Slugman
It’s a Slugfest!
|
Tue Nov 03, 2020 12:42 am
|
|
|
Bird, grouse I think. It always sounded to me like someone trying to pull start a lawnmower or boat engine.
|
Back to top |
|
|
texasbb Misplaced Texan
Joined: 30 Mar 2009 Posts: 1153 | TRs | Pics Location: Tri-Cities, WA |
|
texasbb
Misplaced Texan
|
Tue Nov 03, 2020 8:18 am
|
|
|
Yep, grouse. It's more fun to tell others with you that it's bigfoot sending signals, though.
|
Back to top |
|
|
Malachai Constant Member
Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 16092 | TRs | Pics Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny |
Geyser Valley in the Olympics was named that when some early explorers heard that sound and thought it was geysers, some “outdoorsmen”. All hunters know the sound.🤪
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
|
Back to top |
|
|
Mike Collins Member
Joined: 18 Dec 2001 Posts: 3096 | TRs | Pics
|
Noheaperture wrote: | I’ve noticed a consistent sound comparable to someone dropping a bowling ball on a parking garage ground.a deep thud that bounces and vibrates to a stop. |
Is this what you are hearing?
|
Back to top |
|
|
adamschneider Member
Joined: 14 Jul 2006 Posts: 95 | TRs | Pics Location: Portland, OR |
Just because you heard a grouse doesn't mean you're NOT crazy.
|
Back to top |
|
|
Noheaperture Nohea
Joined: 25 Aug 2018 Posts: 130 | TRs | Pics Location: Issaquah |
Mike Collins wrote: | Noheaperture wrote: | I’ve noticed a consistent sound comparable to someone dropping a bowling ball on a parking garage ground.a deep thud that bounces and vibrates to a stop. |
Is this what you are hearing? |
That’s it! Wow, I’m blown away it’s been grouse I am hearing this whole time. Thanks everyone, Now I don’t feel COMPLETELY crazy.
|
Back to top |
|
|
Cyclopath Faster than light
Joined: 20 Mar 2012 Posts: 7733 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle |
|
Cyclopath
Faster than light
|
Tue Nov 03, 2020 11:07 am
|
|
|
Thanks for posting the video!! I've heard that too and had no idea what it was.
|
Back to top |
|
|
Mike Collins Member
Joined: 18 Dec 2001 Posts: 3096 | TRs | Pics
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
Luc Member
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 1675 | TRs | Pics Location: accepting wise-cracks like no other |
|
Luc
Member
|
Tue Nov 03, 2020 12:58 pm
|
|
|
Yep. I had the same question and posted it here years ago. I had been off trail in the Olympics, had just eaten lunch and gotten freshly stoned. Could have sworn there was a tractor or some big piece of machinery in the next gully over. Screwed with my mind until I got some answers here.
|
Back to top |
|
|
BigBrunyon Member
Joined: 19 Mar 2015 Posts: 1456 | TRs | Pics Location: the fitness gyms!! |
When that happens to me I IMMEDIATELY run all directions thru the brush arms waving!!! Gotta scare those things 'way!!!
|
Back to top |
|
|
Sculpin Member
Joined: 23 Apr 2015 Posts: 1384 | TRs | Pics
|
|
Sculpin
Member
|
Tue Nov 03, 2020 2:45 pm
|
|
|
Slugman wrote: | It always sounded to me like someone trying to pull start a lawnmower or boat engine. |
Right! A lawnmower that needed ethanol-free gas and didn't get it!
Between every two pines is a doorway to the new world. - John Muir
Between every two pines is a doorway to the new world. - John Muir
|
Back to top |
|
|
coldrain108 Thundering Herd
Joined: 05 Aug 2010 Posts: 1858 | TRs | Pics Location: somewhere over the rainbow |
I got attacked by a herd (flock?) of them once. Sounded like a fleet of old school WW2 bombers coming in...they flew straight at my head. They were having a get together, about 6-8 of them, on a big open rock. Then they all flew straight at me. Chicken attack. I laughed pretty hard. I've been back to that same camp spot (off trail in the ONP) a few times, it is the mountain chicken meeting rock - as they were there again just before sunset...I hid in my tent.
Since I have no expectations of forgiveness, I don't do it in the first place. That loop hole needs to be closed to everyone.
Since I have no expectations of forgiveness, I don't do it in the first place. That loop hole needs to be closed to everyone.
|
Back to top |
|
|
Slugman It’s a Slugfest!
Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Posts: 16874 | TRs | Pics
|
|
Slugman
It’s a Slugfest!
|
Tue Nov 03, 2020 3:39 pm
|
|
|
We have a thread about animals in unexpected places. But you expected those birds. Like the time I went to Bonney lakes in the Eagle Cap hoping to see the “cornice elk” again, and there they were. Or going to the Skagit to see eagles. We need a thread for that.
|
Back to top |
|
|
treeswarper Alleged Sockpuppet!
Joined: 25 Dec 2006 Posts: 11276 | TRs | Pics Location: Don't move here |
|
treeswarper
Alleged Sockpuppet!
|
Tue Nov 03, 2020 4:27 pm
|
|
|
You usually hear it during breeding season--May, June?? Maybe you heard a late bloomer?
I used to hear them quite a bit in the Methow area.
What's especially fun about sock puppets is that you can make each one unique and individual, so that they each have special characters. And they don't have to be human––animals and aliens are great possibilities
What's especially fun about sock puppets is that you can make each one unique and individual, so that they each have special characters. And they don't have to be human––animals and aliens are great possibilities
|
Back to top |
|
|
|