Out Our Way: Along the Covenant Trail with Goliath

Out our way, some of the old west still lingers. It is not just the ranchers and cowhands we see in town, or the trail drives up to Beaver Creek that remind us of what was once the norm, but also critters. We see the deer and the antelope "play" from time to time as we drive between towns; we hear and sometimes spot coyotes just off the highway, and even hear tell of grizzly bear sightings on the high plains east of the national parks. But for me, the scariest of all was a run-in Goliath and I had with a mountain lion.

It wasn't out in the Bear Paws or the Beaver Creek camp grounds but le...