>>2006171probably the most scared I've been in my life:
growing up there was a spot on a ridge outside of town called the "420 caves" where kids would go and, you guessed it, get high. It was a cave in the cliff face that you would reach via the yellow line in pic related. Eventually private property cunts cracked down to the point that it was inaccessible via that trail in daylight.
I got the bright idea to cut across via the orange line which is a couple miles of sagebrush then a hike up the rock through a thicket of trees. I lived in the suburbs pictured and set out around sunset. I arrived at the cave just before it was dark, climbed in, and proceeded to smoke hella weed and listen to kendrick lamar on my windows phone or whatever.
When I got out of the cave, blazed out of my teenage mind, it was completely dark. I climbed up and out, as you couldn't easily downclimb to the yellow trail
then I heard the fucking mountain lions start screaming from about 20ft away in at least two directions. now if you've never heard a cougar screaming it is some bone chilling shit. All I could think to do was to walk right along the cliff down the hill so they wouldn't flank me, with a phone light while these fuckers kept snarling and screeching right on my ass... absolutely fucking terrifying, I'm sure if I wasn't an able bodied male I would have got mauled, joggers get attacked in the hills here all the time
that is the day I learned there was cougar on the ridge outside of town
