27F, cloudy, good ride.

I was going along the road where there is a concrete lined irrigation ditch, about 8ft deep, 10ft wide. This is in a residental area. The ditch had a thick layer of ice on the bottom. Something running on the ice in the ditch caught my eye. It was a HUGE racoon! I stopped to look at it. It saw me, stopped, turned and ran the other direction.