I only saw a chad black bear climbing a tree once
I used to do hella backpacking. I've been face to face (3-4ft) with a juvenile black bear who was sniffing my camp partner's barf in the tent rain-fly bodega thing. Actually, I saw like five bears that trip, they look like big fat black labs. Haven't encountered a grizzly, even when in MT/WY/ID
shit thats fucking intense man, ive never been hiking out west but I suppose there are more bears out there
When I yelled at it to go away, it turned around and walked about two feet. Lazy ass mountain puppy
Black bears are easily more afraid of humans than we should be of them. The only issue you'll run into is if you fuck with them or get near a mother's cubs. They'll steal your food, sure, but if you just leave them be and don't make them feel trapped they're not really violent.
We did a trip in yellowstone and our rope to tie food up shredded on the first day so we had to leave our gear just out in the open (no bear canisters). Luckily we didn't meet any bears that time but I slept poorly knowing I may wake to a grizzly
No, but I have a good bear joke, it's a classic so sorry if you've heard it before.
Say you're being chased by a bear in Alaska. Obviously you want to know which kind of bear you're being chased by. So what do you do?
Easy. Climb a tree. If it's a brown bear, it'll climb up the tree after you and eat you. If it's a grizzly, it'll just knock down the whole damn tree. Then it'll eat you.
I've seen them a few times, and I was camping in an "active bear" campground like three weeks ago.
It's always weird how big they are when you see them in person, but black bears are mostly just really large racoons so long as you're not deep into the wood near their cubs.
I've seen a black bear at a summer camp, it was dope because we told the councilor and he turned on this air horn and the whole camp had to come into the lodge and play games.
When elk hunting in Wyoming, we knew there were grizzly watching us 😱 they'd wait for you to pack your kill out and then descend upon the gut pile within minutes. Shit was a bit spooky
Yep I saw a small black bear run across the road in front of our car when I was a little kid. Was probably only a year or two old or something it was pretty small.
I used to go backpacking a lot before I fucked up my back, but I never saw a bear. However, when I was a kid, my family took a trip through Appalachia and when we were driving in one of the parks, we kept whining, "Daddy, I want to see a bear," and Dad was like, "Kids, it's not going to happen. There aren't that many bears and they probably don't hang out by the road." And then a few minutes later a little bear (it must not have been very old) ran across the road. It was magical.
I've seen polar bears at the zoo. they have the glass in the water part of their enclosure so you can watch them swim.
Yeah, use to live in Montana. You slowly get use to seeing them. Moose though, those chads stay frightening.
dude I saw my first moose like a month ago backpacking alone on the at in Maine. I thought it was another hiker just cause of the nice but then I looked up and was like shiiiiit.
I walked up on a black bear while hiking once, it ran away as soon as it saw me. Also got pretty close to a mother and two cubs and didn't realize it until it was running away, that could have been bad. I was with three coworkers during lunch about half a mile from the trailhead, could have been shredded and no one would know.
A black bear almost ate (well attacked) my dog one time. The dog was a tiny Pomeranian, but he was completely unafraid of walking up to a creature 50x his size and growling.
