Wildlife corridor

Our new place is situated along a riparian corridor and there is a ton of new wildlife sightings in the last couple weeks. Beyond the 3 and 4-legged coyote and Zeke our resident fox, we've had a bear come around the last two days - a pretty small yearling that looks pretty hungry and curious. Here are a couple pics of the visitors we've had. Not the greatest pictures but the Elph ain't got a great zoom!

The moose hanging out in the willows.

Curious young bear with HUGE ears and no fear of humans.

Got some supplies for the 69er and the Hunter yesterday. Almost able to ride again (back is recovering) so i'll post some pics hopefully next week. Switched the H-bars back to the Hunter for max torque on the single and finally had to replace the front Spot chainring (lasted over 3 years?!), and putting the Black Sheep Mtn Mustache bars on the 69er with Paul's thumbies and Avid rollerball bb7 discs instead of the hydraulics. Dropped over a pound already to sub 25lbs and still going. I'd lose over 2 pretty fast if i took off the Fox fork...but not yet fellow jedi's. The 69er has some tweaked fork geometry to accommodate the tweaked frame geometry- 51mm offset to keep the trail consistent with the slack headtube angle. That means a custom fork if I want it to ride well with a rigid...and that ain't happening any time soon!

Looks like Matt Lee is leading the Continental Divide Race and is the likely favorite to win it. Lots of snow on the high passes this year (DUH!?)...not sure why they start this "race" or event so early. Late June would be a better idea for such a race, if not later, since they're now starting it up in Banff! I still want to do this ride some day...but how do these guys take so much time off work?!

I'm heading home to Marin again this weekend to help Mom get around the house as she's back on her feet after the back surgery.
cheers.