Hey 270, weren't you the guy who was attacked by the mountain lion?
KeyGrip beware of big cats at night!
great memory, it was I(or is it "me", eh, too tired for proper grammar) that had a brief encounter with a big cat, but that was in the oakland hills somewhere in the vicinity of Tilden park. I guess technically wasn't an "attack" as much as a very close encounter, since it wasn't much more than a few small scratches(I was lucky). A few years ago one of those was spotted near some sorority houses up near Clark kerr and caused a scare but i guess there wasn't much food in the refuse bins to keep it around.
mountain lions are very rare to see around the central coast area these days due to housing developments pushing further and further into the hills, but they are around, though not as much as the more remote areas inland. It's good to be prepared, as much as you legally can, which is not much. The way I look at it, after coming to terms with what I want to see possible and what today's social climate dictates, I rationalize it in that I have a much higher statistical probability of dying from caffeine overdose so I'm not sweating it....