Another example of how bright you are.
“”As someone who likes to camp alone and hike alone at night, I would just as soon not have any Mountain Lions stalking me or lying in wait.””
It is an activity that I do, in spite of the mountain lion attacks in my area. but I would prefer that you lefties not keep trying to import cougars.
What experiences do you prefer and perform in cougar country?
Wow. Lefties are pro-cougar.. Or something. I camp in the West... at night... Deeply ensconced in cougar country. Worry about bears, never cougars. DO RESEARCH
Then again, I don't raise livestock, my dogs and cats haven't been disappearing from the back yard of deeply residential areas, and I'm not worried about small children or jogging paths. 2002 was the year with the second-highest number of bear attacks on Philmont hikers, at least at the time. May have been as a result of all of the fires in the north country, or the Scouts who left candy bar wrappers at the foot of their sleeping bags, or the ones who left asthma inhalers in their boots at night without covering them with stinky socks, or the orange-tagged bears who had been spoiled by poorly hung bear bags and had already been tranquilized and flown out of New Mexico, but found their way back.
The bloody paw print on the rock scared the bumpkins out of me, however, and the tawny flashes on either side of the road, and the occasional flashlighted eye flashes from RM's extra powerful torch kept me concentrated on keeping the crew together, hiking fast, and singing.
The two youth crew leaders we told, who kept the crew together, noisy and moving, without telling any of them for a day or two, were champs.