SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – A hiker is recounting a harrowing face-to-face encounter with a mountain lion inside Mission Trails Regional Park, one of several sightings in the park over the last 5 weeks.
Gabe Yanez was several hours into a hike on the Suycott Valley Trail in the central part of the park just before 7 p.m. two Thursdays ago when the experienced hiker, who was jogging down the trail, spotted the big cat in the brush about 5 feet off the trail.
“Freaked the heck out of me,” Yanez said. “I thought this was the end of me.”…