{"id":10719,"date":"2020-10-13T06:51:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T10:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=10719"},"modified":"2020-12-17T09:05:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T14:05:47","slug":"watch-utah-runner-stands-up-to-cougar-in-frightening-6-minute-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/mornings\/2020\/10\/watch-utah-runner-stands-up-to-cougar-in-frightening-6-minute-video\/","title":{"rendered":"[WATCH] Utah Runner Stands Up To Cougar In Frightening 6-minute Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white;vertical-align: baseline;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;vertical-align: baseline;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">A trail runner in Utah has a terrifying encounter with a mother mountain lion that stalked him on a trail for six minutes, lunging him at least three times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Kyle Burgess went for a trail run on Saturday and encountered four small animals crossing the trail ahead of him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">At first, he thought they were bobcats, so he pulled out his phone and started recording. Moments later, the mother mountain lion came into view.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;vertical-align: baseline;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">He was walking backwards the entire time by the way&#8230;he then managed to bend down to pick up a rock and hurl it at the mountain, hitting it and sending it running back down the trail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;vertical-align: baseline;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">But the ordeal wasn\u2019t finished. Kyle still had to go down the way the lion went to get to the trailhead, otherwise he faced a 7-mile run the other way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">So, after a 30-minute wait and armed with a stick and a rock, he started back down the trail. He then encountered some hikers and asked if they had seen a mountain lion. They laughed at him, until he showed them the video.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ktRhBcHza4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 A trail runner in Utah has a terrifying encounter with a mother mountain lion that stalked him on a trail for six minutes, lunging him at least three times. Kyle Burgess went for a trail run on Saturday and encountered four small animals crossing the trail ahead of him. 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