re: The last (confirmed) fatal mountain lion attack in the US was 13 years ago

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In the eighties as a teen I was hunting mule deer in eastern Nevada near the Utah border with some friends. We had about one inch of new snow that we were using to track with. Wound up losing track of a buck when it went over a ridge but coming back the way we came we saw our footprints tracking the deer tracks that then were covered with HUGE mountain lion paw prints. While we were tracking the deer, the cat was tracking us. Left me a bit shaken at the time.

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This story, or some version of it, has been told around a campfire at every camp hundreds of times. Makes you wonder how many people have really be stalked and how many are just full of shite.