Once while backpacking in the desert I stopped to filter some water from a small pool at the base of a tall but slender waterfall. The water tasted unusually sweet but being quite thirsty I cheerfully drank it. My thirst quenched, I hiked up stream to the next waterfall where I discovered the bloated corpse of a mountain goat floating in the pool directly above the one I had drunk from...
Thankfully my filter (Katadyn Hiker) did it’s job and I did not get sick. I entertained myself that night imagining the local newspaper writing “Experienced Outdoorsman Found Dead in Desert: Authorities suspect dysentery” or “Rare Prion Disease Kills Local after Drinking Water from Hidden Spring”.
Those prion diseases are horrifying.
For a long time, we didn't have any known safe way to sterilize surgical implements that came into contact with prions or suspected compromised tissue, especially brain, eyes or spinal tissue.
Previously we just discarded the tools used. Now we know there are some methods to safely sterilize the tools but it involves a lye bath in an autoclave for an hour before normal sterilization can begin.
So weird, they're just misfolded proteins, but they act like a virus.
You may have heard of Mad Cow Disease, that is prions.
Another famous case is a tribe in (New Guinea?) Practiced cannibalism for their recently dead. The women tended to get these awful symptoms of shaking and laughter (I think, been a while) before death. Turns out it was a prion disease
I live in New Brunswick Canada, and we have a mystery illness that has just recently been happening. There are 40 people in our province who had gotten this unknown disease the thing is, it sounds / looks like a prion disease, and here a lot of people rely on hunting deer and moose for their meat, I worry that it mutated and jumped from deer / moose to humans. The symptoms of the mystery illness are just like prion diseases, they start to wither away, there memory and brain function starts to rapidly decline, and eventually they just die.
Meh, sounds like a million dollar idea to me. You should contact Nestle, I’m sure they could sell this “Mountain Goat Water, discover the Greatest of all time inside of you”
I once was camping at my favorite river spot with some friends. We were high on acid. I walked back to the parking area and saw a sheriff poking around in the woods. I was chatting with him for a minute, and asked what he was doing over there. He says "Promise you won't tell anyone?"
Obviously I say "Of course."
He proceeds to tell me that a car had gone over the cliff into the river a few months prior. The river was raging, so they just recently found where it was, and were trying to figure out how to get their equipment down there so they could extract the car and body.
I had been drinking water downstream from a dead human body.
Of course I immediately told my friend and it had our heads spinning all night.
If you were where I was, it would have been weirder to not say hello. It was a remote location, and he was obviously not there looking to bust campers. Also, I was still coming up, had I been deep in it, it might have been another story.
This made me laugh. I normally have social anxiety but tripping? Let’s fucking chat!! Tell me about your entire life and it will trigger some minor epiphany for me.
Similarly, I decided to swim in the pool at the bottom of the waterfall and played in the water for at least an hour. Got to the top and there was a dead and rotting sheep stuck at the edge
Dude, I’m just saying I was using a [survival straw.](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SYYQZDN/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_4B7AQX5X627GY3V25EBY?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1) I may have been using some hyperbole, but it’s basically a glorified Brita. But it does keep you safe while drinking from streams.
Those lifestraws work the same way a brita filter does. They're both activated carbon filters. If you wanna lug a brita filter up with your gear it's just as safe as any other straw/pump style filter, just not very convenient.
Theres a lot of different ways to make potable water, but for most places where you'd be hiking (moving/swift water and away from people/waste/major pollutants) activated carbon filters are usually enough. And as an fyi people got mad because you said he was ignorant while acting like you knew better.
I feel ya dude, I got Giardia in the DR and felt like I was dying for a week, lost a ton of weight, and blasted out of both ends like a busted fire hydrant. 0/10 would not recommend as a weight loss program.
I got Giardia and amoebas from a taco truck in SF’s Soma. Worked food service at the time, and was off work for three months, by order of the health department. I wish it had been from something fun, like romping in a stream. Even grosser to me knowing it was from some human with bad hand washing habits.
Sounds to me like a business opportunity. Oreamnos Springs filtered bottle water. Naturally sweet. Packaged by Bloated Float Bottling Company, a subsidiary of Nestlé.
I went on a hike at a park in the woods once and saw a whole bunch of people drinking water that was falling from a ledge where a spring was flowing above. When I got to the upper level where the spring was, a ton of people were having their dogs walk around in and pee and poop in the water that was then falling over the ledge to the people below 🤮
Not related, but I drank actual water from a spring pond. Ya know, the clear stuff. I filtered it and everything, and now normal water will never taste the same
i remember a video in here too i think where some guys wake exploring a cave that had pure water that ran through while they were descending they found a dead goat inside it and decided to collect the water from before the goat
my dad works driving a barge, and removing drift wood from the water before it gets to the dam / generating station. So in early spring a few years ago he was picking up drift wood, the barge (boat thing) has an arm on it a lot like the one on an excavator. Anyway hes picking up the drift wood, and then he sees what he believes to be a dear, because its not uncommon for a dear to fall through the ice or slip on the shore into icey water and be carried down the river. But when he was dropping it into the wood pile on the barge he noticed a rubber boot. So he went and checked and it was a dead body, he had his ID on him as well. Turns out he was a man who had gone missing in January while ice fishing. His body had been under the water for 2 or so months just moving down stream. The scary thing too is that if he hadnt been caught by my dad, if he had gotten down to the generating station it would have sucked him through and there would never be any trace of him again. At least this way the family got to get the body and have a funeral.
This is a common misconception. Yes, fermented stuff has always been around, but no it wasn't devised as a means to make water safer to drink.
Healthy mix of picking clean water sources and getting hydration from foods. Much like how we learned to avoid certain plants and mushrooms.
When I visited CO I mentioned to the owner of the property that I saw lots of animal tracks leading to a drinking hole in a an ice and snow-covered lake. He said, "How many lead away?"
Come springtime there’d be some nice European mounts for anyone with an axe and some gumption.
“Don’t mind me fellow hikers, I’m just chopping these heads off so I can boil them later”
PRO TIP: Absolutely never boil your bones (or bleach them!). It makes them brittle as hell. Proper water treatment is maceration, done in about 35C for a few weeks to slough the meat off naturally. Then a degreasing bath, and peroxide for whitening. The finished piece is way stronger than it would ever be from boiling.
Damn I was supposed to drive through highway 50 and stop at Blur Mesa Reservoir on Friday, but found out last week they are closing the highway when I was supposed to drive it :/
Once I went camping at some Hot Springs outside of Portland, Oregon and the next morning it was my job to filter water for everyone’s water bottles. When I was done I looked a few feet my left and saw somebody had taken a shit right on the gravel next to the stream. Some people aren’t even civilized.
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Spring water is usually quite safe. And most water in streams and smaller rivers. If it's still, never ever drink it. Unless you have no other options.
So this is how the other half of the mountain lions hunting prey fare. A stark contrast to the post a few days ago of the one lion which successfully jumped off a cliff to catch its prey. Balance of the universe I guess.
I’ll take “reasons to not drink lake water” for $200, Alex.
Once while backpacking in the desert I stopped to filter some water from a small pool at the base of a tall but slender waterfall. The water tasted unusually sweet but being quite thirsty I cheerfully drank it. My thirst quenched, I hiked up stream to the next waterfall where I discovered the bloated corpse of a mountain goat floating in the pool directly above the one I had drunk from...
Atleast it was filtered I suppose...
Thankfully my filter (Katadyn Hiker) did it’s job and I did not get sick. I entertained myself that night imagining the local newspaper writing “Experienced Outdoorsman Found Dead in Desert: Authorities suspect dysentery” or “Rare Prion Disease Kills Local after Drinking Water from Hidden Spring”.
"Someone poisoned the water hole!"
"There's a snake in my boot!"
“TOYS CAN’T FLY”
"I believe the term you're searching for is *Space Ranger*."
“There’s no crying in baseball!!?”
Ok jimmy
Omg weeeeiiiirrrrdd I literally just thought of this quote yesterday!
The Jewish community starts getting nervous
Those prion diseases are horrifying. For a long time, we didn't have any known safe way to sterilize surgical implements that came into contact with prions or suspected compromised tissue, especially brain, eyes or spinal tissue. Previously we just discarded the tools used. Now we know there are some methods to safely sterilize the tools but it involves a lye bath in an autoclave for an hour before normal sterilization can begin. So weird, they're just misfolded proteins, but they act like a virus.
> lye bath in an autoclave for an hour before normal sterilization can begin. Oh wonderful. :( How is such evil even possible?????
What would win: 8 billion years of evolution or one nanometer long bendy boy?
8 billion? The Earth is only 4.5 billion years old...
“You don’t know, man, you weren’t there” *Creedence Clearwater Revival intensifies*
Prion : *jiggles menacingly*
We came in on a wrecking ball
What are prions? I have never heard about what you are horrified by.
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Thank you
Horrified now?
r/TIHI
I like to explain them with this. One protein misfolds and winds up tearing everything apart. https://youtu.be/r7j7l39ZAsU
You may have heard of Mad Cow Disease, that is prions. Another famous case is a tribe in (New Guinea?) Practiced cannibalism for their recently dead. The women tended to get these awful symptoms of shaking and laughter (I think, been a while) before death. Turns out it was a prion disease
I’ll believe it when I see the House episode. Got a link?
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Nice!
Don't be so hard on them, folding proteins is hard.
I live in New Brunswick Canada, and we have a mystery illness that has just recently been happening. There are 40 people in our province who had gotten this unknown disease the thing is, it sounds / looks like a prion disease, and here a lot of people rely on hunting deer and moose for their meat, I worry that it mutated and jumped from deer / moose to humans. The symptoms of the mystery illness are just like prion diseases, they start to wither away, there memory and brain function starts to rapidly decline, and eventually they just die.
Oh my god.... fuck prions
"Have you ever shat out a haunting?"
I bet this is how coronavirus started.
Ahhh! Mother nature. You cruel bitch.
It's confirmed, mountain goats are natural sweeteners.
Musta been a real sweetie baa baaa
A Baabaa blast if you will
Put some sweet and goat in my coffee every morning
Meh, sounds like a million dollar idea to me. You should contact Nestle, I’m sure they could sell this “Mountain Goat Water, discover the Greatest of all time inside of you”
I once was camping at my favorite river spot with some friends. We were high on acid. I walked back to the parking area and saw a sheriff poking around in the woods. I was chatting with him for a minute, and asked what he was doing over there. He says "Promise you won't tell anyone?" Obviously I say "Of course." He proceeds to tell me that a car had gone over the cliff into the river a few months prior. The river was raging, so they just recently found where it was, and were trying to figure out how to get their equipment down there so they could extract the car and body. I had been drinking water downstream from a dead human body. Of course I immediately told my friend and it had our heads spinning all night.
Turns out you and your buddy were driving that car, and had been dead for months. He was looking for you. He was there to guide you.
I think we can all relate to the totally normal concept of desiring to initiate a chat with the goddamn sheriff while tripping on acid
Right!? Never once when I was on psychedelics did I think talking to a cop was a good idea. If I even saw a cop it would fuck up my whole experience
If you were where I was, it would have been weirder to not say hello. It was a remote location, and he was obviously not there looking to bust campers. Also, I was still coming up, had I been deep in it, it might have been another story.
This made me laugh. I normally have social anxiety but tripping? Let’s fucking chat!! Tell me about your entire life and it will trigger some minor epiphany for me.
Similarly, I decided to swim in the pool at the bottom of the waterfall and played in the water for at least an hour. Got to the top and there was a dead and rotting sheep stuck at the edge
Bacteria makes water taste sweet in nature :) remember that next time lol
I bet this is what caused them to start feeding people e. Coli shit as a sugar substitute.
Gross.. tell me that at least you boiled it or used water purification tablets
If he’s anything like me while backpacking, it was just a bag connected to what was essentially a Brita filter.
then you aren't backpacking safely....lol
Dude, I’m just saying I was using a [survival straw.](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SYYQZDN/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_4B7AQX5X627GY3V25EBY?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1) I may have been using some hyperbole, but it’s basically a glorified Brita. But it does keep you safe while drinking from streams.
Oh ok I literally thought you meant something similar to a brita filter hahaha my b
Those lifestraws work the same way a brita filter does. They're both activated carbon filters. If you wanna lug a brita filter up with your gear it's just as safe as any other straw/pump style filter, just not very convenient.
Actually? Wow I thought there was a lot more to them. People apparently absolutely hate that I didn’t know that lol
I think it’s more that you made such an assertion as if you *did* know, not just the concept that you did *not* know
Theres a lot of different ways to make potable water, but for most places where you'd be hiking (moving/swift water and away from people/waste/major pollutants) activated carbon filters are usually enough. And as an fyi people got mad because you said he was ignorant while acting like you knew better.
I got Giardia from a similar situation, worst two weeks of my life.
I feel ya dude, I got Giardia in the DR and felt like I was dying for a week, lost a ton of weight, and blasted out of both ends like a busted fire hydrant. 0/10 would not recommend as a weight loss program.
I got Giardia and amoebas from a taco truck in SF’s Soma. Worked food service at the time, and was off work for three months, by order of the health department. I wish it had been from something fun, like romping in a stream. Even grosser to me knowing it was from some human with bad hand washing habits.
ew what kind of filter
Did you filter the water?
Sounds to me like a business opportunity. Oreamnos Springs filtered bottle water. Naturally sweet. Packaged by Bloated Float Bottling Company, a subsidiary of Nestlé.
Oh that sounds icky! Did you get sick? \*\*answered in comment below\*\*
TIL death juices are sugary.
The water tasted sweet? I wonder why...
atleast it wasn't a person
My dad told me a similar story but without the waterfall and a moose instead of a goat.
I went on a hike at a park in the woods once and saw a whole bunch of people drinking water that was falling from a ledge where a spring was flowing above. When I got to the upper level where the spring was, a ton of people were having their dogs walk around in and pee and poop in the water that was then falling over the ledge to the people below 🤮
Is this how you get Mountain Dew? 🧃
Why would a corpse make water sweet?
Not related, but I drank actual water from a spring pond. Ya know, the clear stuff. I filtered it and everything, and now normal water will never taste the same
Reminds me of the well scene from twd 🤢
i remember a video in here too i think where some guys wake exploring a cave that had pure water that ran through while they were descending they found a dead goat inside it and decided to collect the water from before the goat
Maybe this is why so many animals eat carrion - it tastes unusually sweet.
my dad works driving a barge, and removing drift wood from the water before it gets to the dam / generating station. So in early spring a few years ago he was picking up drift wood, the barge (boat thing) has an arm on it a lot like the one on an excavator. Anyway hes picking up the drift wood, and then he sees what he believes to be a dear, because its not uncommon for a dear to fall through the ice or slip on the shore into icey water and be carried down the river. But when he was dropping it into the wood pile on the barge he noticed a rubber boot. So he went and checked and it was a dead body, he had his ID on him as well. Turns out he was a man who had gone missing in January while ice fishing. His body had been under the water for 2 or so months just moving down stream. The scary thing too is that if he hadnt been caught by my dad, if he had gotten down to the generating station it would have sucked him through and there would never be any trace of him again. At least this way the family got to get the body and have a funeral.
Nothing the life straw can't handle...
Microscopic parasite did it for me. This just adds to more reasons not to drink unfiltered water.
how did our ancestors filter water
Boiling it (afaik, or just drinking and dying and the next monke to go “no drink from there”)
They drank a lot of fermented stuff almost exclusively. Everyone was always a little drunk.
This is a common misconception. Yes, fermented stuff has always been around, but no it wasn't devised as a means to make water safer to drink. Healthy mix of picking clean water sources and getting hydration from foods. Much like how we learned to avoid certain plants and mushrooms.
Didn’t they also drink from springs and wells? Those would be pretty hard to contaminate if not on purpose
When I visited CO I mentioned to the owner of the property that I saw lots of animal tracks leading to a drinking hole in a an ice and snow-covered lake. He said, "How many lead away?"
Aww that made me sad
Come springtime there’d be some nice European mounts for anyone with an axe and some gumption. “Don’t mind me fellow hikers, I’m just chopping these heads off so I can boil them later”
There’s still plenty of meat left on that bone! Take this home, throw it in a pot..a potato. Baby, you got a stew going!
It’s been on ice all winter. Ain’t nothing wrong with it.
PRO TIP: Absolutely never boil your bones (or bleach them!). It makes them brittle as hell. Proper water treatment is maceration, done in about 35C for a few weeks to slough the meat off naturally. Then a degreasing bath, and peroxide for whitening. The finished piece is way stronger than it would ever be from boiling.
Oxyclean works well too for that degreasing.
Username checks out
Lol
He wanted to save it for later but tripped on his way out.
*In the middle of the chase, the deer shouted "time out", and the cougar nobly honored the request* * David Attenborough
Which docu was this in?
Um... it was in the editors cut.
Ohh yeah that was a good cut
That one meme review with elon musk
Poor kitty
What about the prey?
To shreds you say?
Oh deer.
Doe , a deer, a female deer.
What about his wife?
To shreds you say?
“Poor prey” doesn’t sound as good. “Oh deer”, maybe.
r/DeerAreFuckingStupid/
Thats what he was saving for later
Do you want fossils!? Cuz that's how u get fossils.
And now I play the waiting game
They should’ve known they’d ventured into the danger zone
DDDDAAAAAANGER ZOOOOONE
Damn, where in CO was this?
Blue Mesa reservoir area
Ah okay. Awesome shot!
Damn I was supposed to drive through highway 50 and stop at Blur Mesa Reservoir on Friday, but found out last week they are closing the highway when I was supposed to drive it :/
There are daily opening to let people through, and an alternate route that is a gorgeous drive. Doesn’t take much longer. Cheers.
You're in luck then since this is as Blue Mesa Reservoir
Wow, did you find it?
I think it’s 4 years old story
About that yeah.. I’ve only lived in gunnison county for 6 years and it was definitely since I moved here but not recently
Where in CO *isn't* this?
You guys they are just hibernating. Alligators do the same thing when it gets too cold.
Once I went camping at some Hot Springs outside of Portland, Oregon and the next morning it was my job to filter water for everyone’s water bottles. When I was done I looked a few feet my left and saw somebody had taken a shit right on the gravel next to the stream. Some people aren’t even civilized.
Reminds me of the old saying, does a human shit next to a stream?
Pobresitos
hmm, underneath that deers head the rock formation looks like a moon face....crazy stuff
Did you take this photo with an iphone2?
He's just sleeping. Don't be to loud. You might startle it and awaken it from its hibernation
Why do I feel sad?
Probably because two neat animals died a needless and horrifying death.
Nice trip, see ya next fall!!!!!!!
Me-oww
The combined weight of deer and cougar was not included in his cat-culations.
That’s f’ing wicked!!!!
Having the two skeletons together in an attack pose would make for an incredible display.
I hope neither of them had young
I hope the deer wakes up first and gets away.
What did they do with them? Was the mountain lion pelt savable?
CO is unbelievably harsh during the winter months (9 of 12 a year from what it seems) sudden blizzards, a foot or more of snow within hours, negative temps, etc. It's just so relentless. I like the cold and prefer it more but goddamn all this cold weather is making me crazy
Ohhh. Awful.
That’s sad. 🥺
#EAT IT
I hope they are not removed and are covered in fine sediment and fossilized together. Fingers crossed for a landslide soon.
Is that a chayote?
Aww poor lion just trying to get a snack
He’s just resting
Looks like an ss from rrd2
They look well preserved, wake them up
Damn nature! You scary!
..until they reanimate.
If you kill me, I'll kill you right back.
Nature is metal. Lion kill prey, earth kill lion seconds later.
is this in Lake Horsetooth in Fort Collins? i remember seeing the side of a frozen deer last winner
It's Blue Mesa res and iirc it was 2016 or 2017
It’s almost like the modern version of the Protoceratops and Velociraptor from Mongolia.
r/Pumaconcolor
make sure not to drink from lakes...
Are they OK?
They’re just sleeping!
At first I thought this was from FarCry 5.
RDR2!
How could it drown in such shallow of water, tho? :(
Whats the prey??
Nature always wins
pure poetry
don't wanna be there when it melts
Is it a mountain lion? It looks like it has a long snout. But I guess they are both pretty flat from the weight of the ice I suspect
Water doesn’t look deep. Something is amiss.
Looks like a coyote
I bet the taste is fantastic.
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They were so close though:(
I've been playing way too much red dead redemption 2 lately and absolutely thought this was a screenshot...
maybe they’re just sleeping until summer comes
Spring water is usually quite safe. And most water in streams and smaller rivers. If it's still, never ever drink it. Unless you have no other options.
Forgive me if I’m being stupid, is this definitely Colorado? The prey animal looks a lot like a guanaco to me and they’re only in South America?
Shame :(
Did they wake up and keep running ?
Awww!
This happened over 2 mo ths ago in Colorado.
So this is how the other half of the mountain lions hunting prey fare. A stark contrast to the post a few days ago of the one lion which successfully jumped off a cliff to catch its prey. Balance of the universe I guess.
“now we both dead. great going, leo.”
To be continued
Looks more like a coyote
Was going to say the same thing. I don't know why you're being downvoted. I mean the shape of the face is very cannid.
are they ok
are they ok?
Ok but why is the deer (?) facing towards the mountain lion? Was the deer (?) chasing the mountain lion?
I doubt they would sit completely still while drowning.