AWESOME FIGHT TO THE END of these Moose…. We have seen about half dozen of these! Apparently, when the male Moose fight for a female or a territory (?same thing?), they often fight to the DEATH. What happens is that these formidable Horns can do significant SKULL PENETRATING damage. Also, horns can really LITERALLY become LOCKED! Sooo, combination of the penetration of a horn into one moose head which kills THAT one is a real problem for the temporary ‘survivor moose’ b/c although you have killed your enemy, you now have your antler stuck FOR GOOD in his skull, and your horns are LOCKED!! This moose too will die a slow death, unable to shake the dead moose from his head. Pic shows the left over skulls of 2 moose that engaged in such a battle.
Snow bank in JUNE still persists…. Note the river flow has greatly subsided, and also , you can see the roots of the brush on the shoreline UNDER the snow exposed.
This Dawson City #4 Gold Dredger has been restored (dug out of 30 foot of frozen muck) and is now a museum. Breifly : this monster was like a huge Amoeba , moving in different directions, traveling with its own huge ‘puddle’ of water (100 yard diameter) … if it wanted to head , say west , it would dig its way westward , GO THRU and Crudely SIFT ALL IT HAD DUG UP, for GOLD of course/ picking it out, and deposit the non-gold stuff behind itself on the EAST shore of its ‘puddle’ ….. by doing so, it effectively MOVED itself and its puddle in a westward motion.
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