We were having coffee one morning recently with a fellow at Kenny Lake Mercantile, which is just up the road from Chitina.
Honestly, he struck me as someone who liked to tell tales to out-of-staters. But he was sane enough to hold an Alaska Driver's License, I'm sure.
While illuminating us with the true Exxon Valdez story and other great snows of the past, he noted with satisfaction that there were, in fact, mountain lions in the Copper River Valley.
Any of you locals heard that one?
