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?

Comments

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

COOL!

[bigredpaul.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's amazing!

[broduke2000.livejournal.com]

Q: What's worse than finding a nearby deer carcass that's been eaten by a Mountain Lion?

A: Discovering that a live skunk has just sprayed underneath the trailer of the studio you're broadcasting from, the A/C is sucking in the fumes, big time, and it's so thick that your eyes are oozing.

[h0gwash.livejournal.com]

Remember those innocent looking ground squirrels that kept infiltrating camp? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg

I think the last time anyone found something that wild at French Meadows was when Paul Earl and John found that gigantic snake on a hike around the reservoir in the 90s.

[barbarian-rat.livejournal.com]

very freaky

[bbearseviltwin.livejournal.com]

It's all part of the wonderus cycle of life. Which is no where near as much fun to ride as the wonderus cycle of motor.