Looking for something new, I rode the Mineral Creek trail on Mt. Hood on 8/31/2008. This route starts and ends in the White River Snowpark and is #16 in John Zilly's Kissing the Trail book (2000 edition).

It was reported to me that this past weekend that a fellow rider (Joni) was riding along the lower portion of Buck Creek (along the creek) and saw a cougar and two cubs on the trail. She was lucky to see it from a distance. It hissed at her but didn’t make any advance. She put her bike over her head and walked down one of the nearby cutoffs to the road…That would be enough to get your heart racing!