Here Kitty, Kitty

Curtis and I did some good exploring on cross bikes last night ... Partrick to dirt to Hess/Redwood and instead of heading into Hess we went right and followed a ton of jeep trails until we were about 1/2 mile away from Hess (to the right). Then more trails until we descended onto Redwood road, close to the bottom (of the Hess portion). A lot more to follow/find/make.

Headed up Redwood to meet with Pruitt. Waited around at top until 8PM, it was fully dark, headed down Veeder a bit, Curtis was cold (vest only), so I suggested hitting up recycling bins for newspaper to stuff under the vest and my wind breaker. As we cruised in near dark (only small lights) I heard something to the right. Deer?

We stopped at a recycling can, tore up some cardboard Swaddlers Diaper packaging and I heard more bush stomping and saw something in dark about 60' from us, crossing the road.

Swaddlers Box helps keep you warm

Used Curtis anemic light first, saw shape.

Switched to mine, saw mountain lion.

Sorta looked like Pete Puma, didn't stick around to see how many lumps he wanted...

Didn't really freak out until it was heading up hill on right side of road and then hearing Curtis worriedly say, "OK, let's go!" Did I mention that "Go" was directly toward the cat?

Funny seeing two grown men race to "survive". Descent down was semi-fast with Curtis passing me once further down the hill and saying "Did you hear that?...Something was running alongside of us back there..." Didn't hear it. Kept moving. Faster.

Got home a lot warmer thanks to the Swaddlers packaging.

Good times.