>19 years old.
>Olympic Peninsula
First night went amazing, I had a good fire going, I enjoyed some good food, I was enjoying some good drink (Wild turkey) slept like a baby that night.
Second night, I was laying in sleeping bag, just listening to music before I fell asleep. I turned off my music after a bit, start to doze away to dream land. I hear a branch break off in the distance, I just think "Fucking deer.....I was almost sleep, now you woke me up". I spend the next twenty mins just laying there, listening to the sounds.....That is when I hear it. I can hear the sound of some thing breathing, slowly moving around on the other side of my tent wall. I just laid there and listen to it move around my camp for a few, then as quick as it came, thing was gone. Early the next morning, I found fresh cougar tracks around my camp site.
The experience scared the shit out of me, that did not stop me from solo camping.