No mountain lion, but we are going out for dinner this week. 
I figured I should ask her after all that touching right?
Meeting someone on a hike–guessing that both of you were hiking and you didn’t just stumble upon her in the forest–means you have a shared interest right off the bat.
All the partners I’ve had relationships with developed from the two of us participating in the same or similar activities. We were members of the same club or both worked on a community project together. In the case of my SO, our jobs and interests overlapped and we kept running into each other all over the place. Another close and potentially long-lasting friendship/relationship began with the friend and I both being volunteers in a civic organization.
I’m roughly your age, in my 50s.
I don’t need to worry about this now because I’m partnered, but I can’t wrap my head around the idea of using a dating service or of asking for a date based on a chance meeting in a bar or at an event specifically arranged for meeting singles. That must lead to lots of letdowns and mismatches.
Youre getting way ahead of yourself… See what next week brings… New member here. But I know women, and just chill… Do not put pressure on, and let her dictate what happens from there.