Subject: [Tweeters] Mt. Rainier hiking and Foxes
Date: Jul 11 05:29:35 2010
From: Lee Rentz - lee at leerentz.com


Thank you for your trail report from Paradise. I'm curious if these
were Silver Phase Red Foxes or a mixture of color phases? I saw one
Silver Fox at Paradise this past winter, which I photographed and you
can see on my weblog at http://leerentz.wordpress.com/2010/02/27/
mount-rainier-in-winter-foxes-gables-and-clarity/ Often, foxes will
have a mix of kits of several color phases.

Lee Rentz
Shelton, WA
lee at leerentz.com


On Jul 10, 2010, at 9:12 PM, Dave Hayden wrote:

> Sherry and I went up to Paradise and hiked the Skyline Trail today.
> We started out by heading up the Golden Gate side and hiked the
> Upper Skyline Trail up and around over to Panarama Point and back
> down to Paradise. The trail is 95% covered in snow still, and only
> in the higher areas were there patches of trail. All the lower
> trails are covered, which should make for another great wildflower
> year. Some of the wildlife seen today were;
>
> On a side note, we had a mama fox with 3 kits along the road just
> before you get to the picnic area on the way in, and another fox in
> Paradise Valley when we left.
>
> Dave Hayden
> dtvhm AT nwrain.com
> Centralia, WA
>
>
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