02-27-2006, 08:58 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Re: always have your camera handy in Big Bend
finally wrote up a little report for another board, so i'll jsut copy it here 
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t was friday afternoon at about 3:30, and i felt like hiking up into the Laguna Meadow area to scout a hike of Ward Mtn on my next trip. i asked who wanted to go, and only 1 person did. man was everyone else sorry they stayed behind :lol: we made the highpoint of the trail at about 5, and decided to scale the small hill on the right side for a better view. after standing there in silence for around 5 minutes, i saw what i thought was a deer out of the corner of my eye. when i turned to look, an amazing thing was approaching us *_*
he kind of just looked at us for a few seconds with an unemotional glance, then turned and walked off :shock: while he stood still, he was no more than 10 feet from us. i didn't care about making noise, or running, or anything but getting my camera out :o that picture was after he walked away. the rock beind him was ~8 feet wide, which would make him almost 6 feet nose to tail. the park ranger i talked to said it was a young male, ~18 months old. this is one thing i surely won't forget 
another picture, i took them is such rapid succesion i didn't pay attention to what the camera was focusing on :?
i know this was not the smartest thing to do, but 2 or 3 minutes after he disappeared, i walked to the rock he crawled over to see if i could get some more pictures, and as my head came over it, the lion was 3 feet away crouching on the other side :shock: he was as scared sh*tless as i was, and we both bolted in opposite direction. i was amazed to see his eyes were bigger than mine :eek:
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