It’s good to check for the location of cubs. You do not want to be between them and momma.
I hunt in the densely forested NE. Very hard to see very far in most situations. The guy who owns the property I hunt was having a nighttime camp fire one August with a small group of friends. He got up to get a beer an noticed that there were cubs on one side of the fire and a large sow bear on the other, just a stones throw away. He froze. Mama scented him finally and headed uphill and the cubs headed uphill to meet her. It could have gone very different. He doesn’t go in the woods any longer without a firearm.