{"id":53905,"date":"2025-07-10T10:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T10:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/53905\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T10:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T10:46:11","slug":"hiker-has-scary-encounter-with-mountain-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/53905\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiker Has Scary Encounter With Mountain Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hiker recently had a frightening encounter with a mountain lion on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alltrails.com\/trail\/us\/california\/gridley-trail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gridley Trail<\/a>, an 11.5-mile out-and-back trail near Ojai, California. The woman stood her ground and shouted \u201cno!\u201d repeatedly at the mountain lion, which eventually left the trail, allowing her to carry on unharmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo means no,\u201d wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cortney26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cortney Rasura<\/a>, the hiker who took the video. Rasura shared the footage to her Instagram page, and several outlets picked it up. Many people in the comments section note that Rasura was very brave, and she did exactly what you\u2019re supposed to do when confronted with a curious (non-aggressive) mountain lion: stand tall, don\u2019t run, and make loud noises.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/tiktok-of-terrifying-mountain-lion-encounter-raises-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TikTok of \u2018Terrifying Mountain Lion Encounter\u2019 Raises Questions<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fun fact:<\/strong> If you hike in mountain lion territory, carry bear spray, because it\u2019s effective against mountain lions, too.<\/p>\n<p>Watch several videos from the hiker who had a scary mountain lion encounter here:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Header stock image by Kathleen Reeder Wildlife Photography\/Getty Images<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Best Bear (and Mountain Lion) Sprays<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/best-bear-spray\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bear sprays here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">This post contains affiliate links. Outdoors.com may earn a commission when you make a purchase through these links. Thank you for your support.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hiker recently had a frightening encounter with a mountain lion on the Gridley Trail, an 11.5-mile out-and-back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1666,159,67,132,68,837,29376],"class_list":{"0":"post-53905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-mountain-lion","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-wildlife","14":"tag-wildlife-video"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114828540907234655","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}