My family and I went to the river trail in the evening. We usually go hiking in the morning of the weekends, but today was irregular. My daughter wanted to go there in the evening after my husband came back from work.
When we got there, it was past 5 pm. The sun was still up and blight, but the air started cooling down.
Toward the end of the trail, my daughter whispered us that she heard some low sound. We stopped walking and listened carefully. We heard some growling sounds.
Followed by the sound, we saw something swiftly crossed the trail in front of us. It was about 10 meter (30 feet) away from us.
It was a cub of mountain lion.
We quietly looked at each other’s face. Maybe the low growling sound came from the mom of the cub.
We turned back and went back the trail. Luckily we didn’t run into the mother mountain lion.
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After I came back home, I looked up the information about a mountain lion in the hiking trail on the Internet.
According to many different websites, many hikers in America, especially in California, cross paths with a mountain lion during hiking. However, the death rate by being attacked by a mountain lion is very low.
They warn the readers not to run away or turn your back to it, because it might trigger a mountain lion to chase you.
Instead, make yourself look bigger and stronger than a mountain lion. Put your hands in the air and stand upright, so as to make yourself big and tall. If you have a small child with you, without bending over, hold the child up high so that the child also look tall and big. If you have trekking poles, raise them high. If you have a bear spray, get ready to let it loose in case a mountain lion approaches you.
I have met some hikers who have cross paths with a mountain lion. They all said the mountain lion didn’t approach them.
I think the important thing for us is to be aware of them and try to keep good distance from them. As long as we don’t do anything to them, they won’t harm us.
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