The best hike in California is your next hike in California, wherever it is.

I agree with many of the above comments that you have too much emphasis on wild animals (especially bares and lyons) and not enough on the things that actually give people trouble - falls and adverse, often unanticipated, weather.

Get some solid information on what triggers SAR ops and adjust your site to those factors. That might be somewhat mundane. so you could use wild animals as a "teaser" - What is even more dangerous than a marauding mountain lion? -to get your reader's attention.