PHOTOS: Cougars caught on camera

When an image of a pair of mountain lions flashed on my laptop, I couldn’t help but glance over my shoulder.

I was sitting on a stump just a few feet from where my newest trail camera, which caught the images, was mounted. The photos were more than a week old, and the cats were long gone, but my heart was thumping in my chest nonetheless.

This wasn’t the first time I had photographed cougars near my home in the Leavenworth area, but it was the clearest evidence to date of what was hunting in the woods around me.

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