Archive for tag: Mountain Lion
Staring Contest
October 21, 2011 Featured, SightingsPhoto taken two weeks ago near Boulder, Colorado.
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Mountain Lion Caught In The Act
February 19, 2011 Featured, Sightings, Wildlife In ActionThis amazing series of photos taken from a boat on Lake Roosevelt in Washington in 2009 should make you a bit more cautious on your next wilderness outing. Or in some cases, the next time you’re hanging in the backyard. Full series after the jump.
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Mind Your Surroundings
October 20, 2010 Elk, FeaturedNever mind that this looks totally photoshopped, just consider the guy’s reaction when he got home and finally pulled the photo off his camera.
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March 31, 2010 Sightings, VideoFascinating footage of a female mountain lion and three young cats showing up in a driveway in Palmer Lake, Colorado. Located between Colorado Springs and Denver, living in this rural community requires checking outside before opening the door: Doubletough contributor Aaron Enget has had several run-ins with bears there, from tipping trash cans to roaming [...]
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No Overnight Camping
February 27, 2010 SightingsThe story goes that the Arizona Game & Fish Department set up these water tanks in the White Tank Mountain Recreation Park, about twenty miles west of Phoenix. Mountain lions had been seen in the area and the idea was to draw them in to “monitor their activity” and perhaps attempt to get an idea [...]
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Mountain Lion Vs. Ram: No Winner
June 9, 2009 Wildlife In ActionAn incredible scene for two hikers in Glacier National Park in Montana. The road was closed to vehicular traffic (it was winter after all) and the hikers, Daniel Wilder and a friend according to the email, found this mountain lion and ram. What took place is obvious: the cougar had the ram in its jaw [...]
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Honey What Have You Been Feeding The Cat
May 9, 2009 SightingsNot all wildlife showing up in the backyard are Bambi and Thumper, or even the neighborhood kids sneaking into the pool. Here in my neck of the woods about the scariest thing sneaking through an open door are these freakish jumping spiders or the bassett hound chasing the chihuahua. These shots of a mountain lion [...]
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A Surprise In The Field
November 12, 2008 Campfire StoriesYesterday I was north of Pierre, South Dakota chasing pheasants and it reminded me of this email from 2006. The story goes that a pheasant hunter named Kent Ferguson of Mohall, North Dakota was in the field when his dog jumped a mountain lion. The cat went after the dog and Kent dispatched it with [...]
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