So Much for the Bay Area's Well-Behaved Mountain Lions

Here's a scary encounter between two families: two human brothers and a mountain lion mom and her adolescent son. Given how many outdoor-oriented people there are in the Bay Area, and how many pusses there probably are out there, it's amazing that there aren't more problems. There has only ever been one (unconfirmed) attack. Compare that to San Diego County (Cuyamaca Ranch in the 90s - yikes) or Orange County, or Vancouver Island up north. The lions in the Bay Area are so well-behaved I sometimes joke that even the mountain lions are polite in NorCal.

Pescadero Creek is huge and empty heavily wooded, and amazingly close to Palo Alto. It adjoins to Big Basin too, so it's no surprise there are lions in there. Who knows, maybe it's the economy and lions are out of work.