We went hiking up by Scout Mountain today. I love hiking in the trees. It was still wet and muddy and we turned around once we were hiking in more snow than anything else. We took a side route to stop and have our picnic lunch...
Sitting on a tree stump getting our wraps out we hear a rumble. Chris looks up at me hopefully and asks "Was that your stomach?".
I say (with complete confidence and slightly mocking his imagination) "No, that was Harley." and then add on in my wittiness "or it was a bear over in those trees. " (gesturing behind us).
We continue to eat and shortly hear another rumble only this one lasted for an eternity (maybe 5 seconds) and it was definitely not Harley. You know the sound a house cat will make when it's angry but not quite hissing yet, the one that says "back off before I get really mad"? It was like that... only slower... and deeper... and louder... and a hundred thousand times more intimidating.
Needless to say we packed up our lunch immediately and left the area with no too few backward and sideward glances.
It is a really cool sound to hear when you are in a zoo and the mountain lion is in a cage, not as cool up close and personal.
5 comments:
Holy CRAP! I would have left my lunch there!
Agreed. Abondoned lunch would have been the result in my scenario as well.
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Wow, crazy, glad you got out alive!
Glad you made it back to tell you tale!
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