[WATCH] Utah Runner Stands Up To Cougar In Frightening 6-minute Video
A trail runner in Utah has a terrifying encounter with a mother mountain lion that stalked him on a trail for six minutes, lunging him at least three times.
Kyle Burgess went for a trail run on Saturday and encountered four small animals crossing the trail ahead of him.
At first, he thought they were bobcats, so he pulled out his phone and started recording. Moments later, the mother mountain lion came into view.
He was walking backwards the entire time by the way…he then 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.
But the ordeal wasn’t finished. Kyle 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.
So, after a 30-minute wait and armed with a stick and a rock, he started back down the trail. He then encountered some hikers and asked if they had seen a mountain lion. They laughed at him, until he showed them the video.
