[pct-l] cougars in San Gabriels

[AsABat]

The same thing happened to me at Lost Valley (just off the PCT north of
Warner Springs) about 10 years ago. I knew something was up at 2 a.m. as
a horse had gotten loose and was running and vocalizing around my
sleeping bag (sleeping cowboy style). In the morning the tracks all
around my sleeping bag explained the commotion. I think I'm glad I
couldn't see it.

AsABat

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> I was sleeping on sand high up near a pass in the Enchantments in
> Washington, a dozen or so miles east of the PCT.  I awoke and got up
and
> stumbled around preparing to make coffee.  I went back to my sleeping
> bag and noticed some indentations six inches behind where my head had
> been resting all night long.  I looked closely and there were two paw
> prints about three and a half or four inches across.  I took pictures
of
> them, wide awake at this point, waking everyone else up and insisting
> they look at the cougar prints.  Apparently it had come up behind me
and
> put its front feet down in the sand and sniffed my head as I slept.  I
> took them to a wildlife biologist friend when I got back to Seattle
and
> he confirmed they were cougar prints...