Poor kid....!!!
You can usually spook off a Montana black bear with a few loud noises...VERY unusual....???
Loud noises....
Like a few well placed .45ACP rounds...
I simply do NOT understand these camping activities in primitive areas (spelled bear h-a-b-i-t-a-t)....
..Without posting alert, well-equipped & armed adults to provide physical security... as these young people sleep....
Common sense eludes us again...
It is more comforting to sleep with a 44 mag. under the pillow.
Bears are intelligent animals. The more intellignet an animal, the more unpredictable the behavior and the more hikers and campers in bear country, the greater likelihood of this being repeated.