It's been years but we use to do a full moon hike several times every summer. It was awesome, beautiful weather, nice cool hiking, different animals out. Now I'm too much a creature of habit and need my regular sleep hours! I would worry about animals any worse than during the day. If a lion is going to get you, he's going to get you!

Once in the Sespe we hiked till about 11:00pm one warm night and had dinner on a rock in the middle of the river when we heard a terrible crashing coming from the brush. After a few seconds a bear comes crashing out about a hundred yards up stream. The animal runs as fast as I've ever seen a bear run, up the other side, right into the bush, crashing, breaking, tearing as long as we could hear. The bear didn't really frighten me, but the thought of what scared the bear. The funny thing is I don't think the bear even knew we where there.