Originally Posted by
rsbob
I bet a cougar or two saw you.
I live at 800' on
Cougar Mt. Surrounded by a King County wildlands park. Bear, bobcat and coyote each spotted occasionally during daylight in our 'end of th road up ^' neighborhood. No cougars spotted in my 17 years here.
In 8 years of summer hiking with USFS @ N Bend region, there was not (to the best of my memory) a cougar attack on forest service lands in the I-90 or Hwy410 corridors. That's a lot of hikers, into a lot of wilderness terrain.
Maybe herds of deer or more plentiful smaller prey in the larger grassy fields in certain areas draw the cougars and bobcats - notably N Bend. I don't know. I always thought cougars, over years, covered a fairly wide range, but NBend has had several in recent years. Do I remember 3 in 5-ish years?