So I skied down undercliff today and the huge tree about 2/3 of the way up dirty chimney fell down, rap slings and all. This is the tree that keeps the top of Apoplexy in the shade. It's now laying across the bottom of Laurel. Lots of snow along the carriage road and walking it without snowshoes or skis would be difficult. Additionally there was a leg laying in the snow. It looked like a dog leg but I suppose it could have been a coyote. There was no blood, just a leg. On the way out I was going to look at it again and it was gone!

Boy am I full now!

Could the canine have been rapping the route and been pummeled into the accumulated precipitation by the descending vegetation?
Front or rear?
Leg.

I had to wrestle a deer leg away from Tonka in the Clove this afternoon (the second one this week), but he still scarfed down a hunk of hide. Late winter storms like last week's are when the coyotes get to exercise their inner wolves in the deep snow and pound the deer.

Root for those coyotes. They're our last hope.

Great article on Coyotes. Very sad for the girl.
http://outside.away.com/outside/culture/201003/coyote-attacks-1.html

Sad for the girl, sorry reporting by Outside. As only the second coyote-related mortality, her death is an extraordinary anomaly, not a harbinger.

3.3 attacks a year across the US and Canada. Think of your chances. Eastern coyotes have been exquisitely evolving to the East for 70 years. There will be no change or spike in incidents. The bigger more capable potential is hooey. They barely need to hunt deer - 60+% of their diets are scavenged deer - let alone us.

Young adults pushed into the population sinks of residential and recreational areas are most often the culprits involved in attacks, and they don't stay around long enough to breed and teach habituation. Problem coyotes become dead coyotes. Eight out of ten don't live beyond their first year.

They get to become mature breeders by avoiding pets, livestock and people.

I'm more worried about the monkey corpses floating in Earth orbit in a variety of capsules from all our space experiments, being exposed to all kinds of radiation for so long. I do not look forward to the day when all those zombie monkeys from space arrive on Earth.

Hitler strikes again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsdxyTNn3ko

Dude, you totally Godwin'd this thread, just as it took an interesting turn!

Is Godwinning not the point of the parodies?