Dear Wife and I have both been sick lately, but we’re both feeling better. We decided to test ourselves with a 2.5 mile hike in Almaden Quicksilver County Park.

The highlight of the day was when a woman on a horse stopped, looked off in the field, and said “Hey, there’s a mountain lion out there!” It was a few hundred feet away, sitting on top of a fallen tree, but every now and then it would move and we’d realize there was a cat out there. It looked big enough – maybe four feet across – that it might have actually been a mountain lion, too! Luckily, it wasn’t hungry for hikers.

[Photo on the Mine Hill Trail about 1/2 mile in from the McAbee Road entrance.]