VIDEO: Kyle Burgess via TMX.news
Kyle Burgess was heading back from a trail run at Slate Canyon late Saturday afternoon when he came across four creatures on the trail ahead of him.
"Really, I didn't know what they were, and I usually pull my phone out like, 'Oh cool, animals,'" he recalled Monday in an interview with reporters, adding that he's seen all sorts of the wildlife near the trail before.
Burgess quickly realized they were cougar cubs. Before he could react, the 26-year-old Orem man found himself face to face with the cubs' mother in a tense encounter he caught on camera.
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