Cougar cache

[snousle]

Here's something extremely interesting from the French Meadows run. Lenny found a deer that had been killed and cached by a mountain lion, in a hollow less than 100 yards from our camp.



This is as I saw it the day we arrived.





I wasn't quite sure what it was Lenny was dragging me out to see at first. I have to say, when I got there, the hairs on my neck really stood up - particularly given the likelihood that we were being watched. Lenny, being brainless fearless, didn't give it a second thought and brought several tour groups by to see it.

I'm impressed that he found it at all - you'd never find it by accident. It takes profound sensitivity to nature to discover such things. I'd have walked right on by.

This is what it looked like the next day:




Freaky, eh?