[george76]

Colorado - July 1997, 10 year old Mark Miedema, of Lakewood was killed by an adult female cougar while hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park when he got ahead of his family.

[george76]

Photographer Moses Street was jogging on a popular trail in Rocky Mountain National Park near Estes Park, CO, when he glanced over his shoulder and saw a cougar about to pounce on him. The cougar backed off when Street yelled and waved his arms. Street used a large tree branch to stop a second and third attack.

Street climbed a tree and had to keep using the branch to keep the lion from advancing up the tree. Park Rangers rescued him after Street’s girlfriend alerted them. (Washington Post, 7/13/97, A01)

[editor-surveyor]

"Colorado - July 1997, 10 year old Mark Miedema, of Lakewood was killed by an adult female cougar..."

I remember that; a woman in California had gotten eaten too, I think in Placer or Eldorado county.