Hikers and Park Rangers, what's the scariest thing you run into in the woods?

A few years ago, my brother and I were camping in Colorado. He heard a twigsnap somewhere nearby,

and he wakes me up. We scan with our headlamps and see a huge pair of eyes staring at us

through some willows. I figured it must be a bear. It kept staring at us for about five minutes

until we turned off the lights. We were going to move camp back towards some other groups. All of a sudden, a massive moose

comes charging out of the willows. Luckily, it veered off before it collided with our tent. Another time,

I was hiking a trail I hike regularly with my dog, but it was totally deserted because of some

rain. She was ahead of me, maybe 20 yards, when she comes

to a dead stop and beelines it back down the trail, completely ignoring my calls. As I chase her,

I notice an unmistakable mountain lion print. I was hiking the Adirondacks with my ex on a trail

that was a loop around a lake with one trailhead exit. Early spring, so a lot of trail

cleanup hadn't begun yet. We're walking about halfway to check out this waterfall, and I hear this

rumbling sound that sounds like an animal stomping the ground towards us. I then hear this bizarre,

rapidly increase in growl that sounds like what Hollywood uses for alien noises and freaking book it.

My boyfriend tells me to hold up,

but I'm crapping myself. I'm out of breath and refused to go back the way we entered the trail.

We have to march through this thick bog that was pulling our boots off to get through the other

side to exit the loop. We get to the car and I'm crying at this point. The previous day was spent

vomiting and eating bad food. Next vacation, we're going to a

city, I moped. We'd been in the Adirondacks for the past four vacations, and honestly, this experience

beat me down. Years later, I was listening to Nature Sounds on the internet, and I hear that growl. A chill

went up my spine. I learned that's a real thing. It was amazing call of a roughed grouse bearing its wings

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