StrongVeganAthlete Chronicles: Terror in the night. W. Glenwood, Colorado. On Donegan above the route 6 frontage road. I pulled into a construction storage site to be in darkness, to hear crickets and near silence other wise, and to avoid headlamps. This has been an exceptionally soul crushing week. I wanted oneness with a nearby scrap of nature. I heard rustling, which I initially thought was a small animal, in the extremely dry crunchy brush. I heard nothing for about ten minutes. Then turned my phone on, to text a friend in Australia, who has become beholden to Trump and these strong talking weakling leaders of the even weaker. He sent me some garbage from Paul Harvey -- nostalgic glorification of empires past...when I heard another sound. Silence.... then I heard heavy explosive grinding of dirt and grit from foot strikes. It was one leap from an attack! I gave a growling grunt, and it darted off, terrified that it was discovered in the midst of near certain attack. I flicked on my head lights, revealing a 125 to 175 Lb cat. It's acceleration was astonishing. In fifteen ft. it was running as fast as Usain Bolt in 100 ft. This incident reminded me of an experience more than 100 years ago, that Jim Corbett wrote of in a book entitled Maneaters of Kumaon, in an unabridged hardback, I read in 1969. When I went back this morning, I looked at my tire tracks and clearly saw where the cat stopped and whirled away in full flight. It was no more than 5 ft away, from my open window. It knows that I became aware of it, BEFORE a presumptive attack. During the daylight visit, I heard similar rustling, but could see nothing. In the visual mosaic of leaves branches and brush, one, maybe two eyes were seeing me return, but I could not see them. I called the DOW, because there are children in the area. I am not happy to see this as the answer to dealing with this magnificent creature. However, a child is a child. In the unabridged edition, Corbett wrote of a particular leopard that enjoyed dining on bipedal primates -- humans. He set up a hunting blind stand, in a relatively open area, for a clean shot, on a leopard that had consumed more than 150 people. He was sur https://www.instagram.com/p/CEN0sEDpIBm/?igshid=eakadq3boupo
