[pct-l] Mountain Lion Attack

[Jeffrey Olson]

During a resupply at Timberline I found that the only book they had was 
one about cougar attacks.  It was fiction, supposedly based on stuff 
that actually happened, and good.  It is by J.R. Stoddard, called Cougar 
Camp. 

One of the stories in the book concerned a woman who had gone hiking 
alone.  A mother and her three cubs didn't understand about tents and 
gently swiped it with their paws.  The woman cut a hole in the floor of 
the tent and walked the mile or so back to her BMW convertible, the cats 
following her the whole time, swiping the tent with paws, claws not out 
obviously.  She made it into her car and started to drive away.  ONe of 
the cats jumped on the roof and starting clawing the roof. 

I read this miles from any road or hiker, while camped 100 yards off the 
trail.  I finished the book just south of Ollalie and left it on a rock 
next to the trail, glad to be done with it.  That was the evening that 
Frisian Rhino walked by...

Jeff, just Jeff...