SEQUIM — As best friends, Sarah Butler and Stephanie Baker have shared a lot of experiences in their 16 years.
But what happened to the Sequim High School sophomores Sunday is something they’re unlikely to forget.
Ever.
“I was in shock. It was crazy,” Baker said. “I couldn’t sleep that night.”
What kept Baker and Butler up all night was not a slumber party, a midterm exam or a potential date for the spring prom.
It was a cougar — a large cougar, the girls say — and it came awfully close.
The two were working on a project for their biology class just after 5 p.m. near the banks of the Dungeness River at the end of River Road, very close to Butler’s home north of Sequim.
Butler was snapping a photograph of Baker when she heard the unmistakable growl of a big cat.
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