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

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In the 1990s, there were SIX fatal attacks in America.

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More deaths by rogue Bigfoots in that timeframe.

That's so sweet how the cougars let the men hug them like that.

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n the mid or late '90s (IIRC), a woman long distance runner was killed was killed along the San Pablo Ridge or Oakland Hills in the SF Bay Area. It was either near dawn or dusk and the victim had a very slight build - 5'-3" and 100# or so. She was on a training run, alone, when a female mountain lion attacked her and killed her.

The mountain lion was hunted down and killed. It was discovered that it had 2 or 3 cubs/kittens/or whatever you call a baby mountain lion. As I recall, $33,000 was raised to take care of the babies. The human victim had two or three kids, but there was no fundraiser for them.

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San Fran gonna San Fran.

That said, it's a mountain lion. That's what they naturally do. Hunt, kill, eat. Much like an alligator, shark, bear, what's the point in tracking it down and killing it?

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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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.

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.

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They are very rare to see, no? I was talking to a Grand Canyon Park ranger when we were there and she said that they average one sighting every two years.

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Just because you don't see them, doesn't mean they aren't there. Cats are very good at stalking/hiding.

Nice picture. That's one bad arse cat.

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

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I don't believe there has been a documented bigfoot attack. Doesn't mean that I'm still not wary.