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Originally Posted by Dantilla
I've hiked a few times where kitty-kat left tracks inside the tracks I made earlier in the day!
Only time I actually saw a mountain lion, a momma and her tiny cub, was very early in the morning, but still bright daylight. I was still driving the Jeep up the Forest Service roads to the trailhead.
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Same for me. Late afternoon hike in the hills above San Marcos. Mtn Lions are spotted there every month or so. I was alone on a trail and once around a bend in a more isolated part of the mountain I got a strong sense I was not alone. Decided to turn back and about 200 yards later picked up a couple rocks and threw them into the brush and yelled to get away. A bit further back down the trail I gathered a couple more and noticed the tracks alongside my prints. Dropped the smaller rocks in favor of a couple big ones and walked past go no stopping to trail head. I was seriously spooked. Happy to drop those rocks and get inside - we lived 100 yards from the trail head.
Bears are sneaky fast for their size. We were driving in Banff Alberta and stopped at the roadside where others were pulled over. There was a medium sized black bear down the embankment ~ 30 yards walking and taking glances at us humans on the guardrail looking down. The bear suddenly made a move up toward us and in like 3 steps was 5 feel from the guard rail. I still remember this guy jumped back and cleanly tearing the extended side mirror off a car towing a trailer. The bear stood there for a moment, I guess laughing under his breath, then wandered back down toward the forest and disappeared. That was 40+ years ago, left quite an impression on me.