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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 9727534" data-attributes="member: 3285">Part of the Philmont experience, I've learned, is making it sound like there's "monsters" everywhere. There was a pretty big gap between what our Ranger told us, and what staff at the camps told us, who rolled their eyes when we mentioned the mountain lion procedures. The example our Ranger used (some guy was stalked by a mountain lion at Philmont and threw his water bottle at it) was later disputed by the staff, who said that was a rumor that nobody could prove out. That said, the point of boogeymen is to reinforce good behavior; I'm just not used to being warned of wild beasts as an adult (and just to be a jerk, I was shouting "here kitty kitty!" as we stumped through the darkness), but we did stick with the protocol to be safe. The bear bag procedure makes tons of sense though, for any wildlife.</blockquote>