They caught the guy. He was a recent parolee, a sexual offender living in a local half-way house after serving a 20 year sentence. He escaped from the halfway house last Wednesday and was camping in the canyon about 1/4 mile from my house. He was apparently waiting for a female hiker to come along.
It totally creeps me out to know I must have walked within a couple hundred feet of his camp the previous morning, alone on the trail. Well, I won't be "alone" any more.
"It totally creeps me out"
Good grief, that is scary. You stay safe.