If you are lucky enough to see one - you are lucky.  i've known many rangers who have spent their careers outdoors and never saw one.  
Now you know another.  Partly because I spent sixteen years on the Channel Islands, where they are unknown, but that is counterbalanced by a lot of time in Arizona cougar country, where I did observe mountain lion prints covering my tracks on a trail.  I did see lots of Wildcats, though (I am a University of Arizona alumnus).