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This is in PNW last month. I was out in the woods when I got to a spot to hike. It wasn't a trail, but a closed-off logging road. I got undressed and started to walk down it. About 30 seconds in, I hear a vehicle approaching, and given the nature of the people I live around, they'd probably beat up a naked guy in the woods for being "gay" so I ran back to my car. It was just the wind. Then as I went back down the road I stopped to admire the view, and really appreciate how much wilderness there is. I heard rustling in the bushes behind me so I turned and saw something moving from one bush to another. It was slinky and low to the ground. I immediately returned to monke and made the biggest deepest yells I could and I didn't see or hear anything else. I backed all the way to my car with my hiking stick pointed.
At first I thought it was too small to be a cougar, I thought it was a coyote. But if a cougar is born early in the year it could be a young cougar? 9 months old? 9 month old cougars do match the size of the thing I saw. I have only seen young cougars in the woods. It would be the right age to hunt. Maybe I gave the young learning cougar a helpful lesson in what not to do.
