Again, I saw LARGE PAW PRINTS on and near the trail. Sadie, my big doodle puppy, met an elderly man on the trail (very unusual!) and the man "yelped" and said "I thought it was a mountain lion". Hmmmm, I didn't know mountain lions were in "my" area.
I usually make a stop at the end of the 2 miles at the head of a canyon and rest on this one particularly smooth black rock that juts out of the ground at a nice, sloping angle. Here is my point of view.