North Cheyenne Cañon Park Puns

I visited Colorado Springs last month with my doggo and am almost certain I saw a mountain lion or bobcat while hiking in North Cheyenne Canon park. I parked near this big gated nature amusement park looking place not to far from where it says you are entering north Cheyenne canon park. I took this trail that started close to the main road and hiked about 45 minutes or so up a trail saw a few people and finalreached what I thought was the end of the trail but I saw that it went up even more and then flattened. So I went up that trail until it was flat and as soon as I reached the flat part of the trail I remember looking across the trail which was probably 100 meters straight or so until it turned to the left. I remember seeing something basically zig zag across the trail 90 or so meters from me which caused me to stop and signaled my dog to stop as well. It wasn’t a small animal so I just stood still and knew this wasn’t normal. After maybe 7 seconds after spotting something zig zag across the trail I see it now starting to walk on the trail without zig zagging and walking towards my direction but still not seeing me. Luckily my dog never did see it either. I got a decent look at it especially when it was walking toward my direction that’s when I was shook to my core because this animal was larger than a normal dog and had that orange cat looking fur. But the main thing that made me think it was a big cat was that I could clearly see it’s two front legs moving in a big cat way in that the shoulders moved all the way up and down when they walked and the two front legs were very long compared to a normal dog. The thing kept walking towards me not looking in my direction but rather looking around I’m %100 certain it didn’t know I was there or else I’m sure it would have stopped or at least tried to chase me or something. I am very lucky that i saw it before It saw me and it made me very scared of hiking in that area the rest of my trip in Colorado Springs because the fact that this animal was literally on the trail kinda looked like it was hunting. It was very cool watching that animal move around without it knowing I was there but also nerve racking because it was on the same trail I was on walking straight towards me. I think the closest it got to me was probably 60 or 70 meters then I took off running back down the trail I have no idea if it saw me then because I did not turn back. I don’t know if that was the smartest thing to do since it might of have s

Walk on trails, not the road.