4 Lifesaving Tips for a Mountain Lion Encounter on the Trail

If you see a wild mountain lion, stay calm and make yourself appear big.

Mountain lion attacks on humans are rare, but they do happen. Dreamstime/TNS

By Jaclyn Cosgrove From Los Angeles Times

I was around 16, sitting on the front porch talking to my friend on the phone, as many millennial teens did, when I heard a loud screech erupt from the pasture behind my childhood home in Oklahoma.