Us cougars, we hunt all over.' The crowd was about 80 percent women, many of them in their 50s, and about 20 percent men, who ranged in age from their mid-20s to their 60s. 'I'll date anyone from 18 on up, and I'm 50. 'Me, a cougar? I love hearing that,' she purred, flashing a mane of blond hair and a white smile. She drove 102 miles each way, from Granite Bay, near Sacramento, to the Danville singles party, in her bid for a date. Garrett, a divorced entrepreneur accustomed to taking risks, had no trouble with that. 'I'm trying to get cougars out of the closet.' 'It's more conventional in the Bay Area to be gay than it is to be a cougar,' Gosse said. More experienced women have been dubbed 'cougars' for their independent, or, some say, predatory ways. The aim, according to society founder Rich Gosse, was to help break the age taboos against older women dating younger men.
