Day 12 Mountain Lion Ahoy !!!!!!

We finally left Salida - it seems like we have been there for a week !
Last night Jon kindly invited us around to his house for steak and beer - oh and a game of shoes (flinging horse shoes at a pole in the ground)

We left Salida and headed back into the mountains.
It was cold, very cold;



First stop was a rather poor ghost town called St Elmo;



We headed upward towards Hancock Pass (12125ft) - an interesting rocky trail;



then across to Tomichi Pass (you can just see it on the side of the mountain)


One route down from Tomichi Pass, we stumbled across a Mountain Lion crossing the trail !! I must have been around 20m from it. It was about the size of a small alsation dog, so I guess it was fairly young.

Looking at the GPS route, I attempted a short cut, following an interesting trail. The short cut got us very close to the trail we wanted to be on - it's just that we were about 500ft to high ;




GPS log