Hellgate
Wizard
I was out cycling today, way out NW of Austin near Leander for you locals. I was way up on a hill and I could see about 3/4 of a mile down the hill. A car and a truck pass me going down the hill. Just as they get to the bottom of the hill a deer begins to sprint across this divided four lane road from left to right. The car and truck begin to slam on their brakes. By this time the deer in the bar ditch and hits the brakes and cuts away from the vehicles. I'm thinking this is going to be good. Then a second deer comes out of nowhere following the first. It sees its friend hit the brakes so it does the same, only it is still on the pavement. The deer goes down and slides as if it's going into second base. (Sorry Aussies and Brits, you'll just have to look that up to see what I mean.) The deer is heads up, on its butt, slides across the two lanes and a very wide shoulder and into the bar ditch. It pops up and makes it between the car and the truck and keeps hauling ass across the rest of the road. Well then there is a concrete culvert the road is crossing over. The deer goes off the road into a ditch that is about 20 feet deep and disappears. By this this time I'm at the bottom of the hill standing up on the pedals trying to get a better view into the bottom of the culvert. No sign of the deer. Either she ran up the dry stream bed and I didn't see her or she cut back under the road inside of the culvert. All I know is that deer has some good road rash on her ass!
and very happy she didn't cause any one else to get hurt!
