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HOW
THE EAGLE GOT HIS NAME
Folks ask
me all the time, how did you get the name 'Moe the Eagle'?
Here are a few tales, there are more...
In 1991 on a training run, lots of screaming in the tall trees on
Mount Benson behind Nanaimo, BC on Vancouver Island. Seven or
eight of us, including a Carrier Indian were running there.
Terrific screeching and screaming and it was too high to see with heavy
branches near the top of the trees. Was it a great owl and an
eagle fighting, or a bald eagle and a golden eagle? We never did
see them but as we were looking up a single eagle feather floated above
us. A more fluffy tertiary feather, it slowly drifted down and
landed in our group, on my chest. The native Indian made a big
deal of this. Translation "The Eagle Man" he said!
Two months later the same group was running near the same spot. We
always took a thirty second break to look over a cliff and canyon vista.
An eagle feather was lying on the ground just going to blow over with
the next breeze. No one else noticed it there so I went over and
picked it up. The native Indian said something like "Moe's spirit
is here again".
My old friend in Colorado said at certain times in the late eighties she
thought I kinda resembled an eagle. My nose for one thing?
People have always mentioned my sight in the woods. How far and
detailed I can see, how I find things like many eagle feathers that most
of my trail buddies miss. Some folks have seen me raise my arms in
the air whenever I see eagles and say stuff like "Brother Eagle, watch
out for me, help me fly... well, at least run forever!!"
In the seventies the eagle population was down. I gave donations
in those days for eagle restoration when the big DDT thing was on.
BC Hydro had eagles flying into their power lines. Hydro has since
spent a lot of money, time and effort making their power lines "Eagle
Safe".
Also I named the Hundred Mile Run in 1996-98 and 2004 and 2006.
"The Eagle" added to the nickname.
A lot of incidents happened over fifteen to thirty years so I just went
with the name.
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