[jazusamo]

Glad to see you’re home for awhile but it doesn’t sound like it’s for long. Some people have all the luck, they get paid for doing what you do. :-)

I imagine that was a bit spooky in the middle of the night, keep checking your six, Fly.

[Flycatcher]

Spooky isn't the word for it. I and my female partner were at about 6600 ft in Pinyon pine/Utah juniper mountain land. I was sleeping in the bed of my truck while the girl was sleeping about 50 yards away in a dry montane wash. At about 3am, I heard the most bloodcurdling screams I've ever heard before -- very close by. It sounded like a young woman (or teenage girl) screaming at the top of her lungs to prevent an animal from attacking her. I immediately thought it was my female partner screaming, of course. I jumped up and yelled in the near-total darkness: "Lisa, is that you?" From out of the darkness she yelled back: "Nnn, nooo, nooo... it's not!"

I grabbed my buckknife and went out there but saw nothing. But we didn't stick around long. We moved her cot and makeshift right near my pickup. We heard the screams one more time, then I finally went back to sleep. I don't think poor Lisa got any sleep, though. But she's a tough cookie, and I admire that.

Back home, I got on the internet and googled a search for the sound. There is no doubt what it was. It was a female mountain lion in heat. All the audios were exactly that sound. I guess the females scream like a banshee to let any nearby males know they are available.

Check it out on the internet. Now tell me if that's not the most frightening sound you could ever hear in the middle of a pitch-black night out in a remote wilderness canyon???

LOL!

More adventures to come... I'm sure!