I have mixed feelings about dams (dam feelings?). They can be used to create hydroelectricity, they are the source of endless dam jokes, and they’re just generally impressive looking.  But it’s also a big disruption for natural habitats.

If only dams proved to be suitable habitat for some sort of daredevil, cliff-hanging, Sylvester Stallone-esque animal. If only there was photographic evidence that some animal could just walk across a dam’s nearly vertical face like it was a natural feature of the landscape. Maybe then I could cast aside my dam doubts and just be ensconced in a blanket of dam appreciation for ever more.

Thank you, ibex. Thank you.

**photos courtesy of my younger bro (not little, for he is indeed much bigger), Mattman.