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Big cat scare: Cougar chases hiker for 5-minutes through an isolated trail [WATCH]
Times Now ^ | 5-16-21

Posted on 05/17/2021 10:44:35 AM PDT by SJackson

Jared said he filmed the incident on his camera phone and believes the cougar was trying to protect her cubs.

A hiker in Utah's Salt Lake City had a terrifying experience with a wild animal when he went out all by himself on the Broads Fork Trail in Big Cottonwood Canyon on 13 May.

Jared Smith was hiking without any worry when he suddenly came across a cougar out in the trail. The big cat didn't run away immediately but proceeded to stalk him for five minutes.

But Jared stayed calm and kept backpedaling slowly until the cougar gave up the chase.

In an interview with Fox 13, Jared recounted the ordeal and said the big cat pounced periodically and was even baring its teeth.

"I was running back down the trail and was probably about a mile from getting back to the parking lot when I heard something off to the side of the trail and looked and there was a cougar oh probably 15-20 feet away from me... definitely startled me,” Jared told the news channel

"Periodically the cougar would pounce and was baring it's teeth and kick it's legs and its tail up, almost like a little sprint right at me,” he added.

Jared said he filmed the incident on his camera phone and believes the cougar was trying to protect her cubs.

"I am going away, I am going away. I am not gonna bug away," Jared is heard saying as he backtracks through the isolated trail

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"It was about five minutes into the encounter that she just veered off to the side of the trail and I continued to back up for another minute or two continuing to talk because I couldn't see where she went off to," he said.

Cougar attacks are uncommon in the United States. But last year, one cougar chase video had shocked millions of netizens worldwide.

The incident that went massively viral in 2020 showed a runner named Kyle Burges being stalked by a cougar through an isolated stretch in State Canyon, near Provo for nearly 6 minutes. Burgess managed to capture the ordeal on camera.

RELATED NEWS Caught on Tape: Cougar stalks hiker for a terrifying 6-minsCaught on Tape: Cougar stalks hiker for a terrifying 6-minutes through an isolated trail [WATCH] In the video, the cougar is seen acting aggressively and it even lunges forward. Burgess is heard yelling, "Go away! I'm big and scary!"

The cougar kept lunging forward and hissing at Burgess. But after six minutes, Burgess managed to throw a rock at the big cat and she immediately ran and ran away.

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TOPICS: Outdoors
KEYWORDS: cougar; mountainlion; utah
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To: Perseverando

Guns, knifes, sticks, rocks or what ever else is handy.

I prefer high quality firearms my self.


21 posted on 05/17/2021 12:13:49 PM PDT by riverrunner
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To: bgill

My sister was once bit by a moose.


22 posted on 05/17/2021 12:20:26 PM PDT by griffin
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To: griffin

Moose bites can be very painful.


23 posted on 05/17/2021 12:45:39 PM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: SJackson

She was a mom with kittens. She just wanted him to go away.

If she wanted to stalk and eat him, she would be invisible and take him out in a blink. Chances of that are one in 5 million.


25 posted on 05/17/2021 1:05:16 PM PDT by lurk ( )
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To: ping jockey

“ why not take a firearm?”

I’d like to, but two reasons:
1. I don’t own one.
2. They’d throw me in jail in California if I defended myself (I split time between CA and Idaho).

I’m not saying they are good reasons.


26 posted on 05/17/2021 1:17:12 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session" - Gideon J. Tucker)
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To: SJackson

I always carry either my Kimber 1911 .45 ACP or 6” Colt Trooper MK III .357mag, AND the AR-50 Beowulf .50 cal w/ 375gr HPs, whenever I go out into any wilderness.


28 posted on 05/17/2021 1:47:09 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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To: steveo

Rimshot!


29 posted on 05/17/2021 2:06:55 PM PDT by bwest
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To: steveo

Rimshot!


30 posted on 05/17/2021 2:06:55 PM PDT by bwest
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To: ping jockey

Not yet, but they are on the march south toward CA.


31 posted on 05/17/2021 2:49:28 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session" - Gideon J. Tucker)
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To: ping jockey

I’m sure that they’re working on it.


33 posted on 05/17/2021 4:29:18 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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