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This is an irrational fear that has really started to bug me because it interferes with something I really enjoy doing - getting off on my own to the back coutry for a while and just communing with the stars and the nighthawks and the coyotes. But I seem to have developed this terrible anxiety that comes over me as soon as it get dark and I'm out on a mesa or something camped all alone. I do all the common sense stuff like lock my food in the car to not attract bears - we only have brown bears down here, anyhow. I know a mountain lion attack is higly unlikely in the first place and more likely to occur at dusk or dawn if I DID have such an encounter, and I know that if there was some crazy lurking that far off the beaten path, the chances of him coming across me would be very, very small. They don't call em wide open spaces for nothing! Still I sometimes get absolute panic attacks which I never did before. This really bothers me, because I was never like that until here lately.
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