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What I saw on the ride home
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Hey, I finally have some strange sighting to report after a ride. I feel like I've arrived.

Saw an overturned car at the start of the Washington side of the Centennial Trail. Looked like it had flipped over at least twice. No other cars in sight, and I didn't see any damage or signs of a crash in the immediate area. There were about six cop cars on scene when I got there, and one of the cops was talking to a guy who looked like he was the driver. No ambulance, and it didn't look like the guy was hurt in the least. Maybe seat belts work.

A couple of miles later, I saw a coyote. We both stopped an looked at each other for a minute or two. He was thinking, "Geeks on commuter bikes never taste good." I could see it in his elitist little eyes.








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Re: What I saw on the ride home [vitus979] [ In reply to ]
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Ewww... creepy. If it were a movie, that would be an omen!
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Re: What I saw on the ride home [vitus979] [ In reply to ]
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Oh, yeah, and yet another lady out on a mountain bike with radio earplugs cutting off one of her senses. I gave her a wide berth to the left when I passed her, and said, "Nice weather this week!"

She said, "WHAT?"








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Re: What I saw on the ride home [vitus979] [ In reply to ]
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i rode up on a guy last year who'd just flipped his four wheeler. i was the first on the scene. he had bumped his head and wasn't real sure where he was. i called the authorities and continued on when they arrived.

and i saw a red fox yesterday....


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Re: What I saw on the ride home [Martin C] [ In reply to ]
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Really? I like it. All but about three miles of my commute is on the trail. Yeah, you gotta watch out for the people walking three dogs on leashes that are about 30 feet long, and worse, the occasional roller blader (I hates them), but hey, no cars. (Yesterday excepted, I guess.)

Sprague, on the other hand- that's just suicide.








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Re: What I saw on the ride home [vitus979] [ In reply to ]
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My strangest ride of that sort was around Loch Ness, yup that Loch Ness.

On one side we came across an overturned car, looked like from the night before. Churned up grass and dirt, still smelled the gasoline.

On the other side of the Loch, ~40 miles later, came across a dead sheep floating in the water right next to the shore. Cloudy day, cold, a bit rainy. Really creepy to see the sheep just floating, and undulating back and forth in the little shore wash. Back . . . and . . . forth . . . one eye open and milky, staring. I've still got a photo of it somewhere. Couldn't resist.

No monster though.

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Re: What I saw on the ride home [johnsonpt1] [ In reply to ]
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Where the heck were you riding?

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Re: What I saw on the ride home [vitus979] [ In reply to ]
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Well, I've seen deer riding my bike many times in Ontario. I know a guy who came across a black bear riding his mountain bike on a trail. But that's not as exciting as the mountain lion that crossed the trail in front of my daughter and her friends on a mountain bike ride in B.C.
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Re: What I saw on the ride home [vitus979] [ In reply to ]
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Hey i recall going by your place during the IMCDA race last year and a few miles later seeing a buffalo. Do you ride up that hill to Liberty Lake or back down to CDA?
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Re: What I saw on the ride home [TriMike] [ In reply to ]
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seeing a buffalo

Yeah, someone has a couple of buffalo out there in a field- there's a baby buffalo now, too.

I ride over to Spokane for work, but I still coast down to start. I'm not dumb. ;) I pick up the Centennial Trail just across the river and head West.








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Re: What I saw on the ride home [Martin C] [ In reply to ]
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Do you know much about that 'new' Idaho trail that goes N/S through Harrison or something-or-other?

All I really know about it is that Mrs. Vitus has been nagging me for about a year to go check it out. I've heard it's nice. The area around Harrison is itself very nice, or at least it was last time I was there. It might have been developed since then, I don't know.








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Re: What I saw on the ride home [cerveloguy] [ In reply to ]
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Well, I've seen deer riding my bike many times in Ontario.

I would never let a deer ride my bike. You should keep your bike indoors.

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Re: What I saw on the ride home [cerveloguy] [ In reply to ]
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I know a guy who came across a black bear riding his mountain bike on a trail.

Must have been one of those circus bears. :)
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Re: What I saw on the ride home [rick_pcfl] [ In reply to ]
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High five!

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Didn't see much on my ride today except that i rode into at least 5 flies/winged thingies. It's like you can see it floating in the air in the distance and then... SMACK on your face! Must be spring or something, anyway i've learnt to keep my mouth close : )
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Re: What I saw on the ride home [KEJ] [ In reply to ]
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Smart asses. :-)

Guess my grammar ain't no good. TGIF.
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Re: What I saw on the ride home [vitus979] [ In reply to ]
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Vitus979, hope to see you at IMCDA, I'm from Spokane originally and make it back for CDA every year. I'm sure you're not as intimidating in person as you are on slowtwitch.
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Re: What I saw on the ride home [trailbait] [ In reply to ]
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hope to see you at IMCDA

Hey, likewise. Give me a holler when you pass my house. I'll probably have the fish on a bike thing going on again, so it'll be hard to miss me.

Not that you should be intimidated by me here, but in real life, I'm even softer and fuzzier. Honest.








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Re: What I saw on the ride home [vitus979] [ In reply to ]
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On my way home yesterday (in my car) I saw hail the size of golf balls, a negligent collision because a guy was trying to take off his tie, and a car burst into flames for apparantly no reason.

It was strange commute, that is for sure.

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Re: What I saw on the ride home [cerveloguy] [ In reply to ]
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I saw a smart ass riding my bike the other day.
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Re: What I saw on the ride home [vitus979] [ In reply to ]
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"I'm even softer and fuzzier"

I don't think I was to see the soft and fuzzy part. Nope. Trying not to picture that now. STOP!!!
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Re: What I saw on the ride home [vitus979] [ In reply to ]
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A few months ago I came across a red Honda CRX that had spun off the road and into a creek. No driver to be found, no law enforcement - must have called a buddy for a ride.

Yesterday I saw a mountain lion while I was running. I thought it was a large bobcat until I saw the tail.
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Re: What I saw on the ride home [vitus979] [ In reply to ]
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Seat belts definitely work: I'm living proof.



That was an xterra... not a scratch on me, though some decent soft tissue damage.



Out here in the desert, I occasionally come across javelina on my bike. Scary looking mofos.

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Re: What I saw on the ride home [vitus979] [ In reply to ]
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Last Sunday while running - I watched this car that was going at most 10 miles per hour - it went off the road and ran into a telephone pole - the guy gets out of the car and looks at the damage - then just walks off. That was bizzare.

I think he fell asleep or something - The car was not going fast - so I do not think his foot was on the accelerator.

As for bizzare animal -- that did happen on the bike -- was about ready to go around some dead opossum when it stood up and ran across the road. At first I thought I was being attacked by Zombie Road Kill.
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Re: What I saw on the ride home [cerveloguy] [ In reply to ]
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Dude- pick up the news stand version of the People magazine special copy this month. It focuses on people who had near death experience and the like- natural disasters, animal attacks, falling off mountains, trapped in blizzards, etc. There is an article in it about two ladies that got jumped by a mountain lion while MTBing. One got torn up really bad but survived to find out that the lion that got her had put the chomp on a MTBer earlier that day who wasn't so lucky. Look at it the next time you wonder down the magazine ilse. Scary!
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Re: What I saw on the ride home [vitus979] [ In reply to ]
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Dead or badly injured motorcyclists are apparently not that uncommon in the angeles crest. Just about a year ago, we came across a dead biker in the road about 25 miles up there. My buddy said it was his third such time in the last 8-10yrs up there. :-?

On the '05 Angeles Crest century, they stopped us for 20 min while they airlifted a biker from around the bend from where we were stopped. <:-/

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Did the coyote sound like this:

http://www.break.com/index/coyote1.html
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Re: What I saw on the ride home [kdw] [ In reply to ]
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Jerk. ;)

No, but that Zombie Roadkill someone else encountered might have.








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