[pct-l] cougars in San Gabriels

[Tortoise]

Now my interest is piqued. Anyone has a good recommendation for a book 
on wildlife tracks and scat?

Tortoise

<> He who finishes last, wins! <>



Jeffrey Olson wrote:
> 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...
>
> Jeff, just Jeff... 
>
> Bob wrote:
>   
>> Apologies to all who have heard my cougar story too many times.  
>>
>> In 2004, my wife and I were a couple miles south of Pines to Palms Hwy
>> (Paradise Café) on the PCT when a Mtn biker came up from behind and stopped
>> to chat. He asked if we had seen mountain lion tracks.   I said that, no, so
>> far we hadn't seen any.    He asked if we knew what they looked like.   I
>> said, "Absolutely."   He then said something we will never forget: "Well, I
>> look for them too and I've seen some.  There are mountain lion tracks behind
>> you and they are INSIDE your boot prints."
>>
>> We had been followed.  Nothing unusual in that, but I sure do look around
>> more now, especially when hiking alone.
>>
>> Dr Bob
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net]
>> On Behalf Of bharve at dslextreme.com
>> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 1:54 PM
>> To: montypct
>> Cc: PCT-L
>> Subject: Re: [pct-l] cougars in San Gabriels
>>
>> Several folks in my neighborhood have sighted cougars.  Now one has gotten
>> a good picture of a cougar right next to a popular hiking trail.  The
>> picture and story appeared in the Fri. Jan 26 issue of a foothills
>> newspaper, and the story has been picked up a day later by the LA Times.
>>
>> http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cougar26jan26,1,1265883.story?ctrack
>> =5&cset=true
>>
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