I Saw My First Badger...
..a split second before I ran it over.
Driving from Bellevue to Grand Junction, we were leaving Boise around 10 PM headed towards Mountain Home. East of Boise the freeway climbs slightly over some hills. The badger was scurrying across the road, moving fast enough to go from the edge of my headlight coverage area to dead in front of me in an instant. I swerved but that only made it worse.
Badgers aren't squirrels, they are bigger -- enough so that I worried about ruining my brand-new front-end alignment. Enough so that the semi truck following several hundred yards behind me swerved to avoid the carcass in the road.