Mountain lion encounter

[jyoutz]

Continental Divide Trail Hiker Scares Away Mountain Lion With Harmonica

Solo hiker scares away mountain lion by playing the harmonica.

unofficialnetworks.com

 

[bcp]

Just pop open your tiger umbrella and charge!

Bruce

 

[Runner]

I can scare off anything with my guitar.

 

[Snobdds]

I have numerous mountain lions on the ranch.

I have never seen one that doesn't run off if startled by a human. This is where nature and man have ample space to coexist ®.

 

[Quaffer]

Did she have a carry permit for the harmonica?

 

[bcp]

Bagpipes are a weapon of war. All hikers should be playing one for protection.

Bagpipes used to be classified as weapons of war

It may surprise people to learn that, until 1996, the British government considered the bagpipes to be a bona fide weapon of war.

www.wearethemighty.com

Bruce

 

[jyoutz]

I have numerous mountain lions on the ranch.

I have never seen one that doesn't run off if startled by a human. This is where nature and man have ample space to coexist ®.

In my personal experience, they have always run when I encounter them. But there was a guy in NM who was killed by a lion while sitting in a hot springs. About 10 years ago.

 

[JeepHead]

We aren't suppose to have ML's here but I have seen one up close by my house 3 times. Every bit of a 100# cat. All 3 times it took off running once it seen me, one of which it was chasing my dog to me.

 

[dodge man]

Bagpipes? Let’s face it a really good bagpipe player still makes you want to jump off a cliff. No wonder they were weapons of war.

 

[oosik]

We have cougars here. Never seen one. However - I don't wander around the property at night either.

 

[Eagle1]

Seen one here and had tracks consistently for a couple of years at a wild life pond. More often than bear tracks that we do have officially.

 

[masscity]

There's at least one here. Guy 4 miles North of me as the crow flies, has two pics on his game cam.

Two people have seen one 7 miles SSW of me. This past winter coming home from shopping there were tracks on the road in

the snow for a hundred yards, then turned east. 4 1/2-5 inches in diameter. Over the years there been many game cam pics

in the UP of Michigan.

 

[jyoutz]

We have cougars here. Never seen one. However - I don't wander around the property at night either.

I have seen a few while walking in the woods, but generally I see them run across the road when I drive woods roads.

 

[Cycledude]

They are in my area also, rare but I have seen a game camera picture of one on my property about 5 years ago, nieghbor lady saw it while cutting hay, some folks said she didn’t know what she was talking about until they saw the game camera picture.

 

[RobertEH]

Bagpipes are a weapon of war. All hikers should be playing one for protection.

Bagpipes used to be classified as weapons of war

It may surprise people to learn that, until 1996, the British government considered the bagpipes to be a bona fide weapon of war.

www.wearethemighty.com

Bruce

Remember, you hear one bagpipe song you have heard them both...

Why do Pipers walk when playing? Harder to hit a moving target...

 

[dougtrr2]

If you watch the video it is hard to understand why it says the mountain lion was scared off by the harmonica. Two notes were played and then sometime later the lion finally walks away. Definitely did not seem to be in reaction to the harmonica.

I also have to question the intelligence of someone that confronts a mountain lion and decides to take video and reach for a harmonica.

Doug in SW IA

 

[ning]

Continental Divide Trail Hiker Scares Away Mountain Lion With Harmonica

Solo hiker scares away mountain lion by playing the harmonica.

unofficialnetworks.com

I'm pretty sure that lion wasn't sticking around already. It definitely wasn't being aggressive and it was looking around for its own escape path already before the astounding noises of the harmonica were played...

Still for whatever reason it reminds me of this ridiculous video:

 

[MossRoad]

 

[jyoutz]

I'm pretty sure that lion wasn't sticking around already. It definitely wasn't being aggressive and it was looking around for its own escape path already before the astounding noises of the harmonica were played...

Still for whatever reason it reminds me of this ridiculous video:

I just found the story comical and posted it as a humorous diversion.

 

[Jstpssng]

Some people claim we have them here but they are like yetis; they never leave tracks and are able to distort any photograph taken of them so that they look like a blob.