“They are back for another season along the slopes between Sunningdale and Gyro Park,” Ron Wilson says of the two mountain goats captured in his March 25 photos.
Able to scale seemingly sheer cliffs and perform acrobatic feats on narrow ledges, mountain goats are nature’s true mountaineers.
Being able to live in steep mountainous terrain helps mountain goats avoid predators. While wolves, cougars and bears can still be a threat to mountain goats, the terrain they live in is in itself a threat, particularly with rock slides and avalanches.
Mountain goats are only found in the mountain ranges of western Canada (Alberta and British Columbia) and the northwestern United States (Alaska, Washington, Montana, Idaho and Oregon).
About 50 per cent of them live in British Columbia, including in Mount Revelstoke and Glacier national parks.
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