On February 4, Travis Kauffman was attacked and mauled by a mountain lion while trail running in northern Colorado. Unlike most tales of mountain lion attacks this one was recounted in a chilling interview with Kauffman by Colorado Parks & Wildlife. The 31-year-old American encountered a kill-or-be-killed scenario in Horse-tooth Mountain Park in which he managed to overpower an attacking mountain lion with his bare hands and suffocate it to death.