Saturday, November 06, 2021

Saturday Morning Junction

 Me and JB today. We groused about aches and pains, road conditions, and Halloween kids. 

Last ride before Daylight Wasting Time begins.

Wildlife Encounter: deers - some of them doing that cool deer gallop thing. 

Tarantella Tally: one squished near the 2000 ft rock.

All that rain we had last week turned everything green again, and that was very nice. Just a trickle of it is still flowing in the creeks.

At Clavicle Cracker I heard a siren and thought it was maybe an ambulance so I got ready to pull over. But then a crazy guy in a pickup coming down almost drove off the road. We yelled at him, and then a Ranger pickup came down chasing the crazy guy so we figured it must be more than just a speeding ticket.  The video doesn't quite capture the excitement of it all, but go ahead and click anyway: one minute long:



Later, Blog Reader Mike posted on his Strava that he saw the guy crash his pickup, get on a bike he had in the bed and ride away from the law on the trail to Castle Rock. I'll be watching the news for stories of criminal activity on The Mountain.

Photo Credit: MIKE

Photo Credit: MIKE

Photo Credit: MIKE

Photo Credit: MIKE

No caption necessary.












Legendary Cathy P doing Whole Mountain Repeats.



2 comments:

Mike said...

Slight clarification. He drove into, and was trying to drive through Castlerock park. He crashed just before the gate and state park boundary.
If the truck had continued he would have driven back up Stage Rd / BBQ Terrace and would have hit the pavement near the Helicopter Pad just below junction. It was just crazy!

Diablo Scott said...

You mean he drove out the Gate, through the NG neighborhood and THEN to Castle Rock??? Mastermind criminal!