Watch out for cows

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Originally Posted by maillotpois

I encountered that line of cows in the same location during a 300k from Healdsburg 2 years ago. (Jo we'll be riding this road for Death Ride training as well, so you'll have another chance to make friends with the cows.)

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Oooh can't wait! :D

(Note to self: take the bike with the fenders)

Yeah - and don't get Mike started on the nasty infection he got from Chileno Valley Rd. poo.... :eek:

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Originally Posted by jobob

This was taken on Saturday, on the road out to the Pt Reyes lighthouse control of the SF Randonneurs 200K brevet:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3523/...ac95df.jpg?v=0

There are several working dairy ranches along that road.


(this is a different location than that in the SF Gate story)

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nice photo Jo! i love everyone just waiting around. Remember the cows all over Coleman Valley Rd on the Holstein 100... granted, I should have expected it given the name of the ride... but I was not stopping at that point!

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Originally Posted by DrBadger

Remember the cows all over Coleman Valley Rd on the Holstein 100... granted, I should have expected it given the name of the ride... but I was not stopping at that point!

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OMG do I ever, that was so funny! (and a leetle scary - those cows were BIG :eek:)

Oh, by the way - I didn't take that photo. :o It was taken by someone on the ride.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimg/se...7612936714987/

Yeah, I had someone at work try to tell me cows just move. Uh, hun, I've physically pushed them with my 1400lb hulk of a horse. They don't always move, and they aren't entirely predictable. During calving season I've had calves run under my horse! Working cattle on a big boy ain't always easy, but boy can he hold um for you on a rope.

Grey Butte near my old house still has grazing permits. They liked to congregate at the bottom of a big, fast, gravelly hill. That made life interesting. I almost gave several knobby tired enemas to cows who changed direction and got in front of me. Good times, good times.