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you need a real spook to figure out what youre made of. just keep going /out/ and youll come back with stories eventually
>eclipse solo hike/bowhunt in the yolla bolly
> 20 miles from trailhead, 2nd night
>sugar pines are dropping 2lb green cones the size of a bread loaf from 200 ft up
>wake up at some ungodly hour to a crash 100 yds out by the spring im camping near
>huh a pine cone
>half a second later another crash
>what
>third crash it hisses
>crashes form a line away from me
>25 later sound fades into distance
morning i go check the spring, theres a set of big mountain lion tracks. thank you rednecks for taking potshots at whatever you see to keep the spooks spooked
Plus that was the same trip, last day, where i got between mom and cubs and she charged me, she turned at 10 yards as i looked her right in the eyes
>california bowhunting rules stipulate no sidearms may be carried, if found it is considered de facto poaching
>got her to turn with nothing but a big knife and swinging dong
best part
>get back to trailhead
>no one else even signed in but me for a whole week
>300,000 acres all to myself
It was spooky since I was all alone but I screamed and wet myself and got over it. When I was out march 2019 and a black bear was circling camp in the night, week 1 out of hibernation, I kept my cool while my buddy lost his shit. Pop your cherry already op. Also if anyone attempts this the yolla bolly is super dry during bowhunting season, the map-marked springs are muddy holes in the ground maybe a foot across and 5-6 miles apart, and your wilderness map is often not sufficient to find them given the last time signage was posted was 30 years ago. I got really dangerously dehydrated wandering around looking for a spring after a big ridge summit day, and the next morning after a miserable dry camp I found the signage, facedown in the dirt, 90% rotten barely legible. Its probably not around this year.
