A woman who was hiking on a trail in Colorado’s Larimer County was found dead on Thursday after what appears to have been a mountain lion attack. If further investigation by state officials determines the animal or animals are responsible, it would be the first fatal mountain lion attack on a human in Colorado in almost 30 years.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokeswoman Kara Van Hoose said several people who were hiking on the Crosier Mountain Trail south of Glen Haven at 12:15 p.m. when they saw a person lying on the ground and a mountain lion nearby. They said they were about 100 yards away.
“As they started to get closer, they started to scare the lion from the area by throwing rocks at the animal and it eventually went away, but they found an adult woman lying on the trail,” Van Hoose said at a a news conference. “One of the hikers is a physician and did not find a pulse.”…