@jabberwocky 63133 wrote:
My favorite deer experience was commuting home on the W&OD several years ago. It was just after dark and I was on the stretch just north of Hunters Mill Road. As I was cruising along, a tiny fawn jumped out of the brush and started running down the trail just in front of me. For maybe 10-15 seconds, we paced each other perfectly; I actually could have overtaken him, but I held my speed and he clearly couldn’t go any faster (though he kept looking over his shoulder at me). Eventually he veered across the trail into the bush. It was pretty cool. I could almost have leaned forward and petted him.
I’ve had numerous close calls with larger deer, but haven’t actually hit one. I have a few friends who have though, including one who hit a deer at like 30+mph while descending on his road bike near gettysburg. He survived but the bike did not.
I rode alongside a fawn a couple weeks ago in exactly that same spot.
And last Monday, I almost got taken out by a deer just west of the water fountain near the pond on the Custis trail that comes between the s curve of death and the Two Sisters hills. She jumped the low rail fence onto the trail about 10′ in front of me.
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