Weeks before a 46-year-old Fort Collins woman was killed in a mountain lion attack near Estes Park, a Glen Haven resident fought off a lion on the same trail.
Gary Messina, an ultra marathon runner who frequented the Crosier Mountain Trail, said he was on a run the morning of Nov. 11 when he spotted two glowing eyes approximately 40 feet in the distance.
“I didn’t know what it was because it was dark, but my headlight gave off a little bit of light …,” Messina said, adding that he stopped running to investigate what he was seeing. “As I got closer and closer and closer to it, I (thought it) was a fox or something right on the trail.”…