[pct-l] Fw: bees, mountain lions, and goats

[Edward Anderson]

Len, Look for toenail prints. If you see them you are looking at dog. M. Lions have retractable claws. I have seen some fresh Lion prints in mud  at Vasquez Rocks in Agua Dulce where I live.
MendoRider

--- On Sun, 4/18/10, Len Glassner <len5742 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Len Glassner <len5742 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [pct-l] bees, mountain lions, and goats
> To: "pct-l" <pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net>
> Date: Sunday, April 18, 2010, 7:34 PM
> I've been doing a weekly out-and-back
> from Scissors Crossing to Third
> Gate.  Yesterday, just as I left TG, an enormous swarm
> of bees passed
> just over my head.  Just as startling and only
> slightly less loud as
> the  low-flying jets that frequent the area. 
> Later on, a bit more
> than half-way back to SC, what was perhaps the same
> humongous bee
> cloud was hovering over a wide area alongside the
> trail.   At first it
> wasn't immediately apparent what was going on, but I
> stopped and
> watched for a few minutes as they slowly consolidated into
> a large
> shrub perhaps twenty feet above the trail.  I couldn't
> really make out
> a hive, but could see them bunching up in one particular
> spot.
> Perhaps they've erected a permanent home there by now.
> 
> Also, about a mile before TG, there is a spot on the trail
> where it
> had been muddy, but dried, preserving a two shoe
> prints.  Closer
> examination shows a couple of equally well-preserved paw
> prints.  I'm
> not very good at identifying prints, but these were large
> enough to
> make me think 'mountain lion'.  Might just be my
> overactive
> imagination, but I thought perhaps someone stomped the shoe
> prints to
> bring attention to the paw prints.  That, or someone
> was out hiking
> with a St. Bernard.  Might be something to look for if
> you're headed
> up that way in the next few days, though if we get the rain
> that is
> forecast, the prints may be gone soon.
> 
> Just couple of things to watch for as you are dodging the
> numerous rattlers.
> 
> Should also mention a goat sighting.  This one had a
> long gray beard
> and was hiking with two pieces of bamboo for hiking poles,
> as his
> regular poles had been stolen.
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