I can read it 
It says go the opposite direction and do it swiftly, your being watched. 
I can't run fast enough anymore to get away from anything!
I tried three times to call those lions, once that first evening and twice the next morning. At sundown the first evening, by the time I sorted out that there were three of them and that one was fresh, light was going fast. I drove on down the road 300 yards around two bends, parked and hustled back 200 yards on foot toward the tracked up area. I almost waited till the next morning rather than call then, but a fresh track is too good to pass, even a poor chance. When I came to where I could see back to the tracks, I scrambled ten feet up the bank and scrunched into a dark fir tree with limbs sweeping down to cover me. I used a Hunt n Carve hare/fawn distress hand call and didn't take time to set out the electronic remote.
My only hope was that one or more of the lions would respond quickly and come down the road toward me. The small one with fresh tracks was the likely candidate.
Within 8 minutes it was too dark to read my watch and I quit after 13 minutes. At the 7 minute mark some animal moved on the steep slope in dark timber above me, downwind. Small sound but alive, could have been squirrel, coyote, not a deer or elk.
Before sunup the next morning I set up a good ambush 250 yards west of the tracks, on the road. Below looking east from my stand toward the tracks and elk kill. I sat on the drop off edge of the road in a nest under sweeping limbs of a big fir, with the electronic caller in the ditch across the road from my hide.
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login My plan was to bracket the area, making a call on each side of the big sharp ridge where the tracks were. The first call was close enough to reach them if they were still on the elk kill. The second covered the huge basin below and on the other side of the ridge in the direction the tracks seemed headed, in case they had not moved more than a mile or so.
Steep ground with heavy forest, the road seemed my best option for the first stand. Stayed 35 minutes with no response other than a raven. Below pics looking west from the stand from inside my nest and outside.
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login Drove on past the tracked area a mile and a half eastward on a horseshoe loop around a big basin/canyon that dropped elevation all the way. The road hooked around a ridge on the other side, at that point 800 feet lower and back within 650 yards across the canyon from the tracked up area. I hiked down that ridge another 100 yards to a flat spot 25x50 yards, where the sound would carry into a vast timbered basin on both sides below and up to the original tracks. I alternated prey/fawn distress with Rainshadow cougar whistles.
Now comes my chronic lion jinx. The sound carried into so big an area that the ambush called for at least an hour on stand. My wife was in a motel 15 miles away in Forks and check-out time was too near to stay a full hour. I'd pay for an extra night for a lion, but nearing midday on old tracks, odds of success were low. I stayed 35 minutes, stood up, took off my camo head cover and gloves, got half of my blind and calling gear packed when a lion started whistling from one edge of the flat. Caught. In the open. We whistled back and forth for 25 minutes but he was suspicious. I didn't make it by check-out time at the motel and didn't get the cougar either. The motel waived the extra charge.
