[pct-l] Cows

[Rev Gizmo]

http://www.ebparks.org/parks/ohlone.htm


----- Original Message ----
From: Kurt Boutin <kboutin at gmail.com>
To: pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 11:48:16 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Cows


Does anyone have a link to the Ohlone trails?  I'm also in the Bay
Area and interested in local trails.

Kurt

On 8/30/06, Ken Powers <kdpo at gottawalk.com> wrote:
> Ahh, yes the Ohlone cows. They were written up in the local newspaper as
> being agressive toward hikers. The last time Marcia was out there she asked
> about the cows and got this reply from the ranger, "I am not allowed to
> comment on the cows."
>
>
> A technique we have used with these and other cows, horses and bears when
> they seemed overly friendly or mildly aggressive is to throw up our arms to
> look bigger and shout loudly "NO!" This seems to stop them in their tracks.
> Then we calmly and quickly walk thru the area. But we have learned to look
> back to ensure that they are not following us, too.  We used this technique
> on the ADT to stop many dogs who wanted to join our hike. They were like us,
> they GottaWalk.
>
> Ken
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Keener" <jlkeener at yahoo.com>
> To: <AsABat at 4Jeffrey.Net>; <pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 9:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Cows
>
>
> Warning - hiker story
>
> I think it was January 2004 and I was backpacking with
> a friend in the Sunol/Ohlone Wilderness in the San
> Francisco Bay Area. It snowed! Oh, and we got lost.
> We came upon a herd of cattle straddling the trail and
> they separated as we approached - two cows heading
> down the trail ahead of us. After about a quarter of a
> mile, the cows began mooing plaintively and looking
> back at us. That's when we heard the herd behind us,
> gallumphing down the trail. We ran behind some rocks
> and the herd circled around us, then wandered away.
> They didn't cow us! ;=)
>
> J J
>
> --- AsABat <AsABat at 4Jeffrey.Net> wrote:
>
> > Advice about hiking through cows:
> >
> >
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060830/od_nm/switzerland_cows_dc_1
> >
> >
> >
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