Yesterday A Mountain Lion Stalked Me

deer kill more americans than bears and mountain lions...mostly by jumping on their windshields.
 
So as my friend is riding down the street on his moped the truck in front of him, which is a semi carrying a big tall tractor thing, hits some branches overhead and my friend dodges them. out of nowhere comes a power line and nails his shoulder.

no cougars but still, isn't that crazy, gettin hit by a powerline in the shoulder and knocked from your moped.
 
Dude, I live in Banff and the idea of cougars scares the shit out of me. Because if you see a cougar, more than likely its been following you for a while.
 
wow. you did the absolute worst thing your could do when you see a mountain lion. you should never turn your back or run away from one. That just gives them a reason to chase and "play" with you. You should have stood your ground and shown that you were something to not mess with, instead of a tasty meal running away.
 
You are supposed to maintain eye contact, and make sure they have a way to escape too, so that they dont feel cornered. The wildlife brochure on my kitchen table says that if you get attacked to "Fight back with anything available." Thats a scary thought.
 
For F&*ks sake guys, in a situation like that you aren't going to whip out wikipedia on this cougar. You don't think, you don't have time, it's mostly instinct. Use as much animal planet as you want but when it comes down to it anything can happen, not all wild animals react the same. No expert can point out how to handle every single cougar haha and one is all it takes. Bad ass story though. I've got into a sticky situation with my dog an two coyotes, as well as a couple raccoons, but besides that nothin' that compares.
 
it was steve french bro, he just wanted to chill

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I found a mountain lion skull in the middle of the jed smith wilderness (8,000 ft), in a stand of lodgepole pine. It totally shook my outlook on my behavior in the backcountry. The crazy thing is that in Utah the settlers killed all the bears, but they killed a lot more mountain lions and there are still quite a bit left. . .
 
i was camping one night and i saw something small crawling next to me, it was dark as shit so i could hardly see anything, i just assumed it was a toad since there were like 3 others i saw in 2 hours. so i put my hand in front of it and tried to scare it onto my hand. then i touched it, realized it felt nothing like a toad, my friend shined a light on it and its a fucking scorpion. a poisonous one too, we have 2 kinds around here, ones not poisonous and ones like crazy deadly poisonous, and i was fucking around with a poisonous one for like a minute, i have no idea how it didnt sting me.
another time i was climbing out of a creek i was swimming in and found myself face to face with a big ass rattlesnake. it was like less than a foot away from my face. i just ducked back down and climbed up like 10 feet further away.
another time i was riding my bike home and i saw a big bear run in front of me with a sweet ass jeep wrangler with a bunch of crocodile dundee's in it chasing it.

 
those things scare the shit out of me, they look cool on tv but those thing rip 6 year olds off bikes and eat them for breakfast, and you never see them coming
 
i got bit by a barracuda in the Caribbean when i was diving. i strayed away from my group as well, there was a corral valley and the group was in there, i decided to swim out to the exterior where its open water. I didn't pay any attention to the open ocean i was just checking out the reef to my right, little did i know there was about 20-30 barracuda just chillen to my left about 20 ft away, just staring at me, i freaked out for a bit and then decided not to pay them any attention. 5 mins later i get hit in the hip, one of them tried to go after the knife on my hip, tore through the wet suit, this shocked the shit out of me, i swam up to the boat freaking out, the captain pretty much just dumped some rum on my hip from his bottle and gave me some to drink haha. to this day i still have the scars.

second crazy experience was off the coast of thailand/malaysia on the island of Redang. i forgot my license so i couldn't go on any of the dives there, so i just rented some fins and went free diving. I was swimming with my mom and sister who were snorkeling and i noticed two little baby black tip reef sharks and dove down to follow them. came up for air, dove back down and they had disappeared, i was about 30M deep on the ocean floor about to start my ascent, i look up and see a big ass shark, had to have been atleast 12ft in length. it literally circled me once and swam off, def a crazy experience mainly because i had drifted pretty far from the shore and nobody really knew where i went.
 
Nothing too crazy for me personally, but my siter-in-law had a place in Edwards, CO. It was a Duplex and the place attached to hers got broken into by a black bear. The thing ate every piece of food in the house, including ripping the fridge door off the hinges.

Luckily her neighbors were gone at the time. Animal control found the bear and had to euthanize it.
 
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