About three years ago I was hiking through the woods on a narrow trail to go steelheading. It was still dark. Something let me walk right up on it and then it tore out of there. To me it seemed almost waist high but I never saw it. My first thought was Cougar. Hiking back out that spot had the remains of a seagull ripped to shreads and blood and feathers everywhere on bushes, etc. Maybe it was a Coyote but it seemed bigger than that.