[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4FbHzeCJjM[/video]

So you think dogs are a nuisance on trails?

Thats one beautiful animal! Don’t think I’d be so cool if I came face to face with it though. #shitmaself!

Wow, very calm. Cubs nearby perhaps?

tonyd – Member

Wow, very calm. Cubs nearby perhaps?

Probably not. My guess would be it was stalking him with the intention of eating him. They are ambush predators . It might have thought more of it when the mountain biker confronted it.

When I was in B.C many years ago there was a report on the radio about a mountain biker being killed by a cougar. Apparently it followed him for 15k before jumping off a ridge above the trail.

Stalked by a mountain Lion!
It was the silent phone calls that bothered me the most.

I think its a juvenile, not sure whether to kill him or shag him.

I love the way that the cougar behaves just like my cats in the garden. Stalk something for a while and when it realises it has been spotted it has a casual sniff of something like that’s what it came over here for.

Shag him, then kill him and then shag him again.

I think its a juvenile, not sure whether to kill him or shag him.

Reminded me of this:

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzzjgBAaWZw[/video]

That was a big fear of mine doing some solo rides in BC this summer.

They have been watching & following you for a whole lot longer than before you spot them.

I wouldn’t have wanted to get into a situation with one.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/zLUyYU]Trail Cat[/url] by SGMTB, on Flickr

When I was in B.C many years ago there was a report on the radio about a mountain biker being killed by a cougar. Apparently it followed him for 15k before jumping off a ridge above the trail.

I remember that. Same thing happened to a woman in Banff, but in her case, a passing MTBer used his bike to fight the cat, and the thing ran off.

I am sure that I have told this story on here, but I was riding in Kamloops, BC, when, after about an hour’s grind up a mountainside, I had the funniest sense that I was being stalked.

It was probably just my senses overreacting, but I decided to turn and hightail it downhill. I have never ridden so fast in my life, and know that I would not have ridden most of what I did that day at that speed if I wasn’t riding in terror.

Ah, the joys of riding in Canada. 😕

EDIT: Incidentally, the guy in the video seems to handle it all very well.

Weird fake growls in the middle of that. Very odd thing to do with the video.

SaxonRider

I remember that. Same thing happened to a woman in Banff, but in her case, a passing MTBer used his bike to fight the cat, and the thing ran off.

I am sure that I have told this story on here, but I was riding in Kamloops, BC, when, after about an hour’s grind up a mountainside, I had the funniest sense that I was being stalked.

It was probably just my senses overreacting, but I decided to turn and hightail it downhill. I have never ridden so fast in my life, and know that I would not have ridden most of what I did that day at that speed if I wasn’t riding in terror.

Ah, the joys of riding in Canada.

EDIT: Incidentally, the guy in the video seems to handle it all very well.

I’m hoping to get back there in a few years. If I’m riding solo, I’m packing heat 😈

We spooked one in the undergrowth about 2m from the trail in Pemberton 2 years ago, I nearly shat myself!! Then about 300m later, round a corner, a rider coming in the opposite direction warned us a mountain lion just ran across the trail!!

We were in Banff the week after someone had been attacked by one – and were warned to stay away from a couple of the trails. This was 18 years ago…

Add in a moonlit, romantic walk interrupted by howling Coyote’s, it made the few days we were there hiking and biking rather exciting….!