After we hiked to the top of Nevada Falls, we took a break. We got two small bags of snack nut mixes ready to eat, before Yanbin went to refill our bottles with water. I was looking far at the mountains, at which moment I felt a small dark things moving super fast away from my left side. It was a squirrel! He snatched one of our bags and ran towards a big rock. I quickly turned and tried to chase him, but he was too fast. I can only saw him hiding under the rock, tearing the bag with his teeth, holding nuts using both hands and eating.
He then left and ran somewhere else. Yanbin came back and I told him about this. "Maybe he went to find his family." He said.
After a short while, he came back with another squirrel, Yanbin was right! They were still eating as we left for our next hike.
Hmm, lessons learned: store food well while hiking in the wildness. Animals have amazing noses for food, and are so much faster than us.
