As we were returning to the car at 4:30PM maybe only 100 feet from the trailhead, there was a bobcat sitting in the middle of the trail. Sh!t, sh!t what a time to be without a camera. I pressed the cell phone camera into service. The cat was a distance away and the puny phone camera enlarges to a blur. For what they are worth, I post the original and a couple of crops here. The building in the background is the Nix Nature Center. In 15 years of hiking, this is only the third bobcat that we have seen.
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