100 km skate and wildlife

Thanks for the notes from Canmore and wherever you go. We want more of that here. I really enjoy reading about other peoples' experiences while skating, even the daily differences. I should say that at Greensboro Country Park recently I have had occasion to skate at dusk, one lap even with my headlamp just to give it a try again. On separate days, I saw what I believe to be a hawk (not a turkey vulture, and I know this was a big multicolored brown bird) sitting very still on a fallen limb I believe it was. At first I thought this was a clump of dried leaves, in fact. What an impressive sight! This was on the outside of the loop on the downhill right bend just before the 180-degree left. Another day, just over "baseball hill" where the road comes in from Jaycee Park (which on the old 1927 topos is called Greensboro State Park) down at the bottom of the rollout from there, I saw a buck and doe over to the right in the woods. This was where the temperature stays coolest and some days you can even feel the change, at the low-lying point where I guess there's a creek that forms the two lakes there (5A and 5B as they're named on the old maps). Anyway, this was another fine moment, and I rolled back past them to have another look, but stopping usually would send them running, so I only watched while still rolling. So thanks for mentioning your skate, because I had meant to mention these items recently and simply forgot!

Switzerland! Too cool. I have to ask now: are you from the French, Italian or German part, and do you speak all three? Do you pronounce your first name the German way or the French way? Northinsouth is a Greensboro, NC skater who moved down here from Canada a few years ago. He and Blake are credited with creating a great rapport with the organizers and getting skaters into the Tour to Tanglewood, which skaters have been able to enjoy taking part in since 1999. It's coming up on Sept 6th & 7th so if you're in the area...:-).