At Trailhead 65, which leads to the top of Scotchman Peak, is a foreboding sign announcing to hikers that they're entering "Bear Country" and should take care to neither attract nor antagonize the potentially ferocious omnivores. But the animal that people around here are more concerned about isn't a large mammal capable of mauling hapless hikers. "Watch out for the mountain goats," said the cashier at the gas station in Clark Fork, the town just outside of the peaks, referring to the herbivores that stand under 4 feet. "They're aggressive."/Jake Thomas, Inlander. More here.

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