What lives on a mountain glacier? We used camera traps to find out.

What's the most exciting wildlife encounter that you've had in the mountains?

Thank you for this great video. I enjoyed it.

Awesome! ❤❤❤❤❤ well done!

Amazing ❗️👍🏻🇬🇧

Congratulations on your wolverine sighting. I had a chance spotting at my house at Rescue California a couple months back. Took a few days to figure out what I'd seen.

Ran across one in the back country of Frazer Valley CO. What an experience!

Soo awesome!! Nice work!!

Great news about the wolverines.

Awesome pictures. We had a wolverine in the White Salmon River valley in South Central WA late spring of this year 2024.
It was in a rural residential area of the town of White Salmon and was videoed. It took off north towards Trout Lake and Mount Adams

Many thanks for the link to the camera traps! I have subscribed to your channel, I am equally interested in changes in glaciers.

Please share a link to the camera traps used. TIA

Please share a link to the camera traps used. TIA

Wolverine, I live close to the Columbia River, we have had multiple sightings in the districts around. It's been on hour news. Why would the wolverines travel South?
Awesome video footages, thanks for sharing them. ❤

Thanks for your work on documenting wildlife!

enjoyed this

Come out to BC. I have seen 2 wolverine in the past 2 years. Both times they were in higher alpine but not at glacier level although one wasn't far.
No pikas. One thing that is also common just a bit further north.

I like it best when the people go phantom. Nice camera setups. Thanks for taking us along.

I was lucky enough to witness to Wolverines running from frozen lake they were running down the ravine towards the camping area. I thought they were moments at first but then when I looked a little bit closer it’s like no those are going way too fast. That’s when someone behind me said those are Wolverines.😁👍

i was a backcountry ski guide in the northern rockies, every couple of seasons i'd see a wolverine or two. always when i had been sitting silently in the winter woods for a LONG time. very remote area with dense aspen, pine and lots of rocky slopes, around 10,000 feet.

Do you guys have a website to ask what you guys are up to? I love your videos so far. I have a degree in ecology from Utah state so I’ve worked in a couple of your video sites and I grew up in Washington. So most of your videos hit pretty close to home.

Amazing!

Very clever how you set up the camera. Funny it got chewed on. 😆 Congratulations on the wolverine capturing. What a lucky day! I wish that fox would have come out during the day. They are a beautiful animal. Have a great day and thanks for sharing the video and the study. New sub.

Great video, thanks. I was lucky enough to see a wolverine in Alaska when I was hunting. We have a stable population of them in Montana, 250 -300 is the population estimate. They allow 5 to be trapped in recent years but I don't like that. Anyway, that's my 2 cents worth.

Wolverines are fascinating: so smart. Glad they're returning.

I think there’s a lot more out there than you would think I just saw 1 randomly snowmobiling in the spring at Mount Baker and have seen them well hiking near Stevens Pass on two separate occasions and I’m not in the mountains that much

“Unceded” but you sure aren’t moving out. No, you’ll increase you impact instead

I guess Bigfoot was out of town during this study?

Also, has anyone done a study on these glaciers on Mt Rainer? Are they growing, shrinking, or staying the same?

If you believe the whole climate change thing, glaciers are melting all over the world.

Wolverines are famously solitary. Or I should say they were. Recently I saw a video in which a male wolverine brings a chunk of animal and leaves it for a female and her kits. This was presumably his mate and kits, but the previously literature suggested that like bears, male wolverines might kill kits to bring the females back into heat. female bear thus do not tolerate the presence of males outside the mating season, and I thought wolverines would be the same way. That one video suggests they are more social than previously expected.

The land acknowledgement at the beginning of your video is quite silly. When you start acknowledging the group occupying land during a specific time, there is no sensible place to stop. Nearly every plot of land on earth today is inhabited by groups of people that displaced other people who lived there before. It's nothing more that white guilt.

thanks for your efforts

Very nicely done. Super great to capture the images of wolverines.

I'm surprised you didn't capture images of mountain lions. I know for a fact that at least one existed in Mt. Ranier National Park back in 1981 because I came within several minutes of encountering it one summer day on the trail above where Huckleberry Creek Mountain Training Camp used to be located in the Snoqualmie National Forest just outside of the park boundary on Highway 410 above Greenwater.

There used to be an unmarked, "unofficial" trail leading into the park that you accessed several hundred feet east of the unnamed logging road leading into where Huckleberry Creek Mountain Training Camp was located. I was perhaps 50 yards inside the old growth forest just before the trail broke out of the trees into a half mile wide mountain meadow that then transitioned into a glacial moraine that then transitioned into the rocky shoulders of the mountain itself.

Just inside the border of the park, I had stopped for several minutes to bury a fresh pile of human feces and toilet paper that someone had thoughtfully left smack dab in the center of the very narrow trail.

After finishing up that pleasant task, I proceeded another hundred yards, or so, came around a sharp right-hand bend in the trail, and spied another pile of fresh, still steaming, shit in the center of the trail not 50 feet in front of me. I immediately began cursing the uncouth idiots whom I thought had crapped on the trail again, instead of doing their business in the forest off of the trail.

As I stepped closer, I realized that there was no bright white toilet paper mixed into the poop. As I got up on top of the pile of what I now realized must be wild animal scat, I recognized small pieces of undigested animal bones sticking out of the pile. I probably stared at that pile of fresh scat for more than a minute before I realized that it had to be from a bobcat. It NEVER entered my mind that it might be from a mountain lion.

I took a couple of downed twigs and moved the scat off of the trail, and proceeded on my way, not particularly wary because I knew that bobcats generally avoided human beings and seldom attacked unless provoked or cornered. The trail jogged again and that is when the sunlight out in the meadow ahead could be spotted, approximately 50 yards further up the trail.

About the same time that my brain recognized the sunlight poking it's way into the gloom of the forest, my brain also recognized a dark tawny shape bounding its way up the last few yards of the trail, out into the meadow, and out of sight. It was moving FAST!

I immediately began suffering from a cognitive dissonance because my intellect kept trying to convince my brain that I had just witnessed a large bobcat running up the trail, while my brain was computing all of the information that I had studied as a Boy Scout and young adult. My brain was telling my intellect that bobcats, regardless of how huge one might grow, can't possibly measure over 5 feet long. And, besides, dummy, bobcats DON'T have tails that measure more than 2 feet long! There was that Ah!Ha!, Oh!Shit! moment of realization that while I was burying someone's pile of poop, and investigating the scat, that apex predator adult mountain lion was in all likelihood watching me from inside the old growth forest.

I was approximately halfway across the meadow when out of the corner of my eye I spotted that mountain lion bounding up the rocky shoulders of Mt. Rainer about a thousand feet higher up the mountainside. Its leaps were easily more than a dozen feet in length, and it quickly moved out of my line of sight.

On my way out of the park I reported the sighting to the park rangers at Paradise. None of whom believed me, the Park Superintendent finally coming out of his office to inform me in an infuriating, university professor, I know what's what, snotty tone of voice, "That no mountain lions lived inside the boundaries of Mt. Ranier National Park, and that what I had seen MUST have been a bobcat."

When I informed him that the last time that I looked in a field guide of North American wildlife, EVERY picture of a bobcat had a short stubby tail, and not the long, wavy tail that I had witnessed twice in less than 10 minutes. He just turned around and walked back into his office while simultaneously telling the lower ranking rangers to escort me out of Paradise.

Wolverines are Snow Kings!

You may not see a wolverine in person but their distinctive 5 toed tracks on snow are very distinctive not just in shape but the spacing.

Looking forward to the iceworms!

I saw bear crap upon the Coleman Glacier ice and access trail;
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Saw one once,near Mt. Wade, Alaska, on the Nunatak Glacier, in 1985. We made the first ascent of Wade. Only time in my 81 years on this planet.

Back in 1985 and southern New Hampshire on the slopes of mount MonadnockL my college girlfriend and I saw this very large obviously nearsighted animal come walking out of the woods. I saw it first and Huster and we watched it for a good 10 minutes before it went back into the woods dot we walked another half or so back to her log cabin house and I showed her a dozen photographs of wildlife and she on airing instantly chose the photograph of the Wolverine, which is what I actually thought it was. We were both hundred percent convinced. It actually made me pretty nervous. It was obviously scarier than a 45-50 pound dog. What a fantastic video you got here.

It's interesting to see wild homo sapiens so far from their normal range. ;-)

Great captures! There’s been some extremely unusual sightings recently….one was videoed at Cascade Locks, also one running through a Eugene neighborhood, and another filmed crossing a major highway in Oregon. Sightings down in Tahoe, as well.

Pika?

I've spent most of my life exploring the alpine in Colorado and I always love to see a critter I've never seen before. I doubt I'll ever see one but there's talk about bringing back Wolverines here.

Also I will just say never think you know it all
How can you learn if you already know everything

In 1974 I was hiking with Boy Scout pack on PCT near Glacier Peak
I encountered a group of wolverines coming over the ridge. It was east to tell what they were
I called the ranger and told him and he laughed and said there are NO wolverines
I was happy the Heads thought that because I wanted humans to leave them alone
In 1990 I encountered a pack of wolves deep in the cascades near Steven’s Pass
Again I called the ranger because I hoped the humans didn’t know about them
Of course I was laughed at No wolves in Washington
I encounter rare wildlife often
I only hike game trails anymore because I don’t want to see humans

Great study! Thanks for sharing

Mammals everywhere. Go figure.😊

This was a great find. Thanks

Great to see these wildlife frequent the glaciers, I'm surprised with the amount of human presence there. The Wolverine family was especially nice to see. Thanks for sharing this.

I've seen a lot of fresh black bear scat near the parking at skyline for early morning alpine starts before the crowds arrive.

I'm looking forward to learning more about ice worms and snow worms.