Talk about runway incursions...

So there I am, rolling on 32 (turf), the tail's just come up... when
an Archer blithely rolls right out in front of me on the taxiway for
4. :-|

You can't see much of the taxiway from the departure end of 4 because
of a hangar, and this guy was rolling along pretty good. He was fully
on the runway ahead of me when he saw me, drilled the brakes, and
stopped cold. I put in a pretty interesting swerve (just not enough
room to go over him with the back seat loaded... but I did consider it
for a split second) and managed to roll past with enough clearance not
to terrify me (the swerve had already done that). Thank goodness 32
is wide.

There was nothing I could have done to prevent this. I'd made a
departure radio call, I'd been monitoring the frequency, and I checked
(while taxiing back) to make sure I had the right frequency. This guy
just didn't look or listen.

The wind? About 8-10 knots, 350 or so.

Grass runways are really, truly runways, also. Really.

-Dave Russell
8KCAB