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Leonard
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posted March 26, 2014 08:43 PM
Dave, I have always marveled at the frogs in southern Arizona that only appear during a heavy rain, what they call monsoons. I have seen them so thick on the highway you HAVE TO slow down, running over frogs is slippery as snot-and I mean it literally!
Next day, you may see a few that got hung up in a puddle, but 99.9% of them have dug into the sand until next year or as long as it takes. It's amazing. Rain in the desert is already amazing, I love it!
Oh, and these are not little frogs, they are big, fat toads. (I guess?) Big as your hand.
Good hunting. El Bee
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ursus21
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posted March 27, 2014 07:32 AM
DAA, I've seen that same thing in arid desert country in regards to minnows. Makes me scratch my head every time I come across something like that. Just a question in regards to the frogs, are you sure they weren't some type of toad? I've run into lots of toads and toad-tad poles in the desert but not many froggy-frogs. Speaking of frogs though, I was high up the mountains on the edge of the Bob Marshall Wilderness last summer. Just before dark at night frogs were all over the roads. I've spent a lifetime running around in the mountains and I've never seen anything like this before. They were little buggers, I suspect leopard frogs or something closely related. Sure as weird to hear wolves howling, keep an eye out for grizzlies, and be surrounded by frogs everywhere all at the same time.
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Kokopelli
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posted March 27, 2014 07:51 AM
El Bee;
You're supposed to lick those toads that your find here in Az. for good luck.
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DAA
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posted March 27, 2014 07:54 AM
Troy, I have to admit I don't know a toad from a frog. Unless it's a bull frog, pretty hard to get them wrong.
Which, by the way, last time I saw a bull frog was in some high desert country, outside of Caliente at Beaver Dam.
- DAA
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Leonard
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posted March 27, 2014 08:27 AM
I grew up in Minneesota, so please don't hold it against me! Lots of lakes and many times, a swamp close by. I know what a leopard frog is and I have seen fat toads in virtually the same situations. Sometimes, they are both on dry land, but one thing I do notice is that toads seem a lot more nocturnal?
So, are those desert frogs or toads? To me they are kinda in-between, hard to classify. For one thing, burying in sand for a year after a whole night of wild sex is uncommon, but it is what it is.
Good hunting. El Bee
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TundraWookie
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posted March 27, 2014 10:19 AM
I couldn't believe that Fairabanks Alaska has frogs. The little Wood frog's go into a near death freeze.
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/08/21/how-the-alaska-wood-frog-survives-being-frozen/
Dave,
How do you like those Sawyer water bladders? I have some for my sheep hunt, but have heard mention that they can develop holes pretty easy. I've run Platypus forever, so going to the Sawyer is just a little bit of a weight savings strategy.
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TundraWookie
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posted March 27, 2014 10:25 AM
I couldn't believe that Fairabanks Alaska has frogs. The little Wood frog's go into a near death freeze.
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/08/21/how-the-alaska-wood-frog-survives-being-frozen/
Dave,
How do you like those Sawyer water bladders? I have some for my sheep hunt, but have heard mention that they can develop holes pretty easy. I've run Platypus forever, so going to the Sawyer is just a little bit of a weight savings strategy.
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DAA
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posted March 27, 2014 10:34 AM
The Sawyer is pretty good. The older bladders that came with them are weak - tend to split. The newer ones, as of last year, are a good bit stronger. I carry a spare, just in case.
I take it and use it where I'm expecting stained, muddy type water. Stuff that has lots of visible material I'd just as soon filter out. Desert and canyon type stuff.
For mountain trips where clear water is easy to find, I use a Steripen and like it a lot better.
- DAA
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Leonard
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posted March 27, 2014 10:37 AM
I don't know? Yes, it's remarkable frogs freeze and don't die, but.
I remember when I was just a little boy, too young for the rigors of ice fishing. My dad brought home a mess of fish and threw them in the bathtub and ran water. They all started flopping around, and swimming when there was enough water for them to turn upright.
Maybe we should all look into cryogenic freezing of our amputated noggins? Let's wait until we almost expire, first. Hey, how is Ted Williams doing?
Good hunting. El Bee
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Paul Melching
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posted March 27, 2014 05:03 PM
Teds a little cold other than that hes doin fine...
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TundraWookie
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posted March 28, 2014 06:44 AM
Thanks Dave. In the mountains, I'll use the Sawyer mini filter and when I get high enough up, I'll typically drink the water without filtering. Works well, and that cold water coming out of the sides of the mountains is better than anything bottled I've ever had for sure.
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