Watch out for cows

[jobob]

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.)

Oooh can't wait!

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

[maillotpois]

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

[DrBadger]

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



There are several working dairy ranches along that road.


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

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!

[jobob]

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!

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

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

[smurfalicious]

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.