[Felis_irritable]

The sheep herders have been there for decades before you hikers and bikers and perform a useful task. Providing food and wool. You guys are there for cheap thrills. You are late on the scene. Your presumptuousness is a sight to behold.

All of us aren't bad. To use your own words, your presumptuousness is a sight to behold.

I've more than once wanted to punch out a snotty little mountain biker here in TX. I've got thousands of road miles on a bicycle, all in my younger years, and I've seen personally that many cyclists (as is obvious from this story) are jerks. But not all.

When my wife and I go to Colorado to hike, we keep to ourselves, and don't harass/mock the locals or their livestock. We move for the llamas and horses on trails. We stay on public land.

My family was a bunch of farmers in the deep South and though I'm a city boy I know how to act around livestock. And mountain lions...

[dennisw]

You and yr wife are responsible users of the great outdoors which belong to all on public land. I’m merely saying that sheep ranchers and producers come first and were in fact there first in this particular incident. They have a higher priority than the recreation seekers. Who are 100% legit but a notch lower on the totem pole (to my way of thinking)