green mountain lion

Sunday I went hiking with the amazons. We went to green mountain since it's supposed to be a nice hike for dogs. Edge is afraid of mountain lions and bears. He grew up in Brazil and they don't have that kind of wild life (though Jess pointed out they have even scarier critters there).

I assured him there was no chance we'd see one. The trail was either muddy or snowy. By the time we got to the top we were all splattered with mud and our shoes looked like they had been plastered with concrete (except Edge's shoes, which were proper hiking shoes - the rest of us wore running shoes). 

 

I was also wearing my new Voormi Hi-E hoody, which is awesome. 

 

When we got to the summit, Edge took a panoramic picture. I was standing by the east side of the mountain and I swore I heard a mountain lion. No one else heard it. Then I got worried because I didn't want everyone to think I was fucking with Edge.

But as we headed back down the trail...there were tons of mountain lion prints. And they were very fresh. You could even see, in the prints in the snow, where the mountain lion's tail was dragging behind it. 

 

I'll post better pics tomorrow...I'm guessing it was a pretty big mountain lion, I will post a pic with Edge's shoe next to the print for scale

We hurried down the mountain, Edge with two rocks and Ericka with her bear spray. I wonder what the people coming the other way thought we were doing. We did warn everyone we saw about the tracks. I would also note that we saw deer tracks near the mountain lion tracks. I wonder if it ate the deer.

And I wonder if they will ever hike with me again. Kidding, we have plans to go next weekend.