AMuzi wrote:
:On 5/20/2018 3:06 PM, David Scheidt wrote:
: jbeattie wrote:
: :On Sunday, May 20, 2018 at 7:38:05 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote:
: : On 2018-05-19 16:51, jbeattie wrote:
: : On Saturday, May 19, 2018 at 3:18:24 PM UTC-7, David Scheidt wrote:
: :
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-no...ashington.html
: :
: :
: : My brother lives in Snoqualmie and formerly lived next door in North
: : Bend. I house sat for three months in North Bend and rode
: : practically every day. Every ride was filled with mountain lions.
: : Everywhere -- I had to clean fur out of my chain. Super dangerous
: : place. You need to be packing serious heat:
: :
http://glock.pro/attachments/glock-p...1397584614.jpg
: :
: : In all seriousness, my brother said it was on a logging road not too
: : far from his house. He doesn't know yet if it is anyone he knows. My
: : brother was an old guy mountain bike champ (Washington state and some
: : others), so he knows most of the roads and the riders. I don't
: : recall him complaining about mountain lions or the incessant
: : mechanical problems encountered by Joerg for that matter.
: :
: :
: : Mountain lions are not very prevalent in WA state, probably too cold of
: : a climate for them. That is very different here in CA. I never
: : encountered one so far but saw fresh tracks on singletrack. Once on a
: : singletrack I came upon a freshly slain fox right on the trail. While
: : riding around it something big darted out of a bush and off into the
: : thick vegetation. I don't know what it was but I only know one animal
: : that would kill a fox and eat it. So I chose to get out of there and not
: : to take this trail back home but to use a rather nasty and shoulderless
: : country road.
: :
: : WA has different beasts. While on a winter hike in the snow up in the
: : maintains near Stephens Pass a little bear followed me. It was probably
: : hoping I'd drop my backpack. Every time I turned around it stopped.
: : Looked too small for a bear to be on his or her own and eventually it
: : gave up. I hope it found its way back to mama.
:
: :Oregon has more mountain lions than California.
https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Conserva...-in-california
: :
https://www.dfw.state.or.us/wildlife/cougar/
:
: :And our mountain lions are bigger, faster, stronger and meaner. Oregon is a smaller state, so mountain lion population density is high up here -- between 10-20 per square acre, even downtown. It's how we're handling the homeless problem. I found a mountain lion under my bed this morning. It's bad.
:
: :Speaking of wildlife, I went out with the old guys for a short ride this morning, and one of my cohorts ran over a squirrel. I heard its neck snap. Poor 'ittle squirrel. They're everywhere right now, and the only option when you're descending on a bike is to go straight.
:
: Friend of mine had a bad (broke collarbone, totalled bike) caused by
: hitting a squirrel. It tired to jump through the wheel, or something.
:
:
:
:
http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfr...t/squirrel.jpg
:Might have been worse with a mountain lion. Squirrels don't
:rip out the rider's neck after the crash.
Another reason to refer 36 spoke wheels!
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