Problems with bears and cougars....

I saw a Catholic bear defecate in the woods once. Or was it the Pope? I guess I can't remember now.

Tiger4x4RV wrote:

garyhaupt wrote:
I am just totally amazed and a tad disapoointed. Two or three 'cougar' retorts and no bear ones? I mean...c'mon...it's a gimme.

Please note that way more of us said we saw bears and that those bears were not an issue. Of course, most of us probably encountered black bears and the grizzlies you have up in B.C. are a whole 'nuther animal.

Gary was talking about the lack of jokes about bears. ;)

LS

goducks10 wrote:
Only cougars I've seen were at the local bar:)

:D

garyhaupt wrote:
I am just totally amazed and a tad disapoointed. Two or three 'cougar' retorts and no bear ones? I mean...c'mon...it's a gimme.

Please note that way more of us said we saw bears and that those bears were not an issue. Of course, most of us probably encountered black bears and the grizzlies you have up in B.C. are a whole 'nuther animal.

profdant139 wrote:
Tiger, where did you see the cat?? I have heard that they are found more at the lower elevations (around 4000 feet) than the high country.

And I am told that if you see one, you should stand tall (and perhaps lift your poles overhead) to make yourself look as large as possible. But apparently that is not the right thing to do for a bear.

Our encounter was at roughly 5300'.

LS

I am just totally amazed and a tad disapoointed. Two or three 'cougar' retorts and no bear ones? I mean...c'mon...it's a gimme.

No..these two bears parked their pc and walked into a bar just as a cougar launched her attack? nuthin? This is fertile ground here. Don't let it go to waste.


Gary Haupt

profdant139 wrote:
Tiger, where did you see the cat?? I have heard that they are found more at the lower elevations (around 4000 feet) than the high country.

Lassen National Park, summer of 1989. Mill Creek Falls trail. Don't know the elevation.

I was a volunteer in the 1990's in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, where a birder was killed by a cougar and there were many sightings of them. Many times when I hiked in that park I would see cougar tracks on the trails. Once I even saw the drag marks where a cougar had dragged its kill into the bushes (hopefully not another hiker), but I never saw a cougar there.

(edited June 7 to correct trail/falls name)

We've seen bears approach, but never bother the camper. Racoons are another story...

It wasn't too long ago that one man was killed and one woman severely injured on a bike trail out west by a mountain lion.

She was just on TV last week and I guess the DNR is still working on why he would attack (2)opportunities of prey within hours of each other, and WHY he didn't have any DNA of deer in his system which he should have had a gut full of that DNA.

When DNR can't figure out why the cat attacked, it's time to bike elsewhere! :B

My wife and I ran into (almost literally) a mountain lion (cougar) on a trail while camping on Palomar Mountain in SoCcal. We mentioned it to a ranger later in the week and he said that in all the years he had worked there he'd never seen one.

Oddly, we have never seen a bear. Go figure.

LS