The lion - occasionally hissing - followed Mr Smith as he walked backwards, never turninghis back to the wild animal. In the video shared by ViralHog, the man can be heard repeatedly telling the wild cat that he was not there to disturb it and that he would go away. Mr Smith, who was hiking along the Broads Fork Trail, heard a noise behind him before realising it was a cougar. “I am going away, I promise I am not going to bug you,” were the words said by Jared Smith when he spotted the wild cat. So it was kind of like…‘K, well this is going one of two ways.A frightening encounter caught on camera shows a man from Salt Lake City being stalked by a mountain lion during a hike in Utah. And that’s what he did.”īending down to pick up a rock could trigger an attack response, Root said.īurgess told the Deseret News, “My emotions were a jumbled mess. “You want to remain large and you want to remain making a lot of noise. “In that situation, with that mother mountain lion who’s being very protective, as you can tell, I would not take my eyes off of her and I wouldn’t bend down,” Root said. The one thing Root said Burgess should have done was not run alone and maybe carry bear spray. He made a lot of noise…He stayed large, he stayed loud and he backed away from the area for quite a while. “He didn’t go toward the mountain lion or her kittens.
You did awesome.” Root told the Deseret News Burgess did almost everything right. Scott Root, conservation outreach manager for Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources, told Burgess on Monday, “You did great. In the end, he made it back safely without seeing the mountain lion again.Īlso on FTW: Watch as a bear gets touchy-feely with a shocked jogger They laughed at him, until he showed them the video. He then encountered some hikers and asked if they had seen a mountain lion. So, after a 30-minute wait and armed with a stick and a rock, he started back down the trail.
Burgess still had to go down the way the lion went to get to the trailhead, otherwise he faced a 7-mile run the other way on the 10-mile loop. My heart is racing…Come on dude…Go with your babies, you’re not getting me, dude.”įinally, Burgess managed to bend down to pick up a rock and hurl it at the mountain, hitting it and sending it running back down the trail.īut the ordeal wasn’t finished. “I don’t feel like dying today,” he says in the video. i1tJKJ2gpyīurgess kept talking to the mountain lion and maintained eyesight while backing away as the cougar kept its pace walking toward him. Utah hiker's video shows cougar following him down the trail, lunging at him several times, before finally running away. ABC News tweeted a shortened version that showed the most frightening moments:
The entire video can be seen on his YouTube channel. Moments later, the mother mountain lion came into view and that started a scary retreat he captured in video. Kyle Burgess was on a two-mile run up Slate Canyon near Provo on Saturday evening when he encountered four small animals crossing the trail ahead of him, according to the Deseret News.Īt first, he thought they were bobcats, so he pulled out his phone and started recording. A trail runner in Utah experienced a terrifying encounter with a mother mountain lion that stalked him on a trail for six minutes, lunging him at least three times.
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