We were there a few years ago staying in Estes Park. We found the spot where you could watch the elk herds at dusk across an enormous meadow. It was pretty cool. Next morning my wife went out for an early walk around our B&B and came across a bull elk and his narem of 6 or 7 cows in the neighborhood, far too close for comfort.
Poor kid in this story. I can’t imagine waking to the crunching sound of your skull in a bear’s mouth. I hate the sounds and vibrations of a dentist working on a tooth!
I might've still been attacked, but I can't imagine sleeping so soundly that I couldn't hear a bear until it had it's mouth around my head!
Are you allowed to launch Estes rockets at Estes Park?