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

We saw this mountain lion in southern Colorado's Raton Basin CBM natural gas play. We were driving to one of our locations when we spotted a dead elk along the side of that lease road in the picture. We got out of the truck to inspect it and realized it was a natural kill and not a vehicle impact or poaching. As we were standing over the elk, the hunter emerged from the trees, stood on the lease road for a couple of seconds, then continued moving across the road and into the trees downhill. My coworked was quick enough to snap this pic of before it vanished. We quickly got back in the truck to GTFO of there.