They're in Kansas, too.

Being a former Kansan (with two brothers who attended KU) the idea of a MOUNTAIN lion is Kansas
causes a large grin to appear on my face. Maybe they should be called bump lions in Kansas.

Tom

Eric Struckhoff said:

KU student reports seeing two mountain lions on west campus

Monday, January 5, 2004

(Updated Monday at 12:37 p.m.)

A mountain lion that has been seen and photographed on Kansas University's west campus may have a
companion -- possibly a mountain lion cub.

More stories about Kansas MTLs at: ljworld.commountain lionsOpen ↗

Tom Weaver said:

Being a former Kansan (with two brothers who attended KU) the idea of a MOUNTAIN lion is Kansas
causes a large grin to appear on my face. Maybe they should be called bump lions in Kansas.

They don't live long - the highest hills in the middle of the state are the cloverleafs on I35. Its
Intermountain Peterbilts versus Mountain Lion, and the Peterbilts will win every time...

-Curtis Russell Odenton, MD (USA), formerly from the general area of Newton, KS

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Quoted message said:

Being a former Kansan (with two brothers who attended KU) the idea of a MOUNTAIN lion is Kansas
causes a large grin to appear on my face. Maybe they should be called bump lions in Kansas.

Tom

Ya, just "Mount" Oread in Lawrence, atop which sits the KU campus. Good for short hill sprint
repeats x 20 (14th Street from Tennessee St. to Oread Blvd.). I'd guess the top of the hill is 900-
920 ft. above sea level.

The Riverfront Park trails in Lawrence are 800 ft. elev. (with about 20 feet of elevation gain/9
mile lap).

The porch of the Free State Brewery in downtown Lawrence is about 850 ft. elev.

Of course, Kansas is the home of Steve Tilford, who knows a thing or two about mountain biking.

The highest point in the state? Mt. Sunflower, 4039 ft. elev.

(From americasroof.com)

Mount Sunflower has been upgraded with a picnic shelter and a attractive steel sculpture made of
railroad spikes. There is a mailbox, a little rail fence enclosing the area, and a plaque indicating
that "nothing happened here in 1897"

Mount Sunflower is less than a mile from Colorado (and very close to Colorado's lowest point!).

I do miss the topography of Washington State, my home until 1997.

Cheers,

Eric