Originally Posted by
Hondo Gravel
Yes, just a few hours ago I almost collided with a deer. I was on routes where I know the roads very well so I know where the deer tend to be. Not nearly as lonely as the route you cruised at night. Skunks and rattlesnakes is my biggest fear. It was great to get out of the hot sun and the old boring route is like new at night it feels like a completely different route. I haven’t cycled at night very much so this is new and keeping the sport fresh.
I still wonder if a deer was the cause of my skull be cracked in three places last year. I have amnesia for everything that happened 10 or 15 minutes prior till I got put in my room at the hospital. One of the fleeting little scenes that went through my head for a period of time after were of a deer bounding off through the woods.
If you ride solo, think about whether you might want another to know when to expect you back or even share your location with them via your smartphone. My wife had just checked my location on her phone, saw I was stopped in an area I don't normally stop in and was about to call 911 when the people that found me called her. So simple things of just letting another person know and location sharing with a smartphone can work.
Anyhow.... back to the subject. Your gravel roads out there look great. Wish the few we had here were like that. Here, they tend to be six inches deep in wash gravel.