If I see a bear, with or without cubs, I am heading the other way. I don’t like any creature bigger and stronger than I am that can eat me. Just as soon shoot it.
Never try to be stealthy and quiet in bear country. The more induced racket the better. You want mamma bear to hear you a mile off. If mamma scents you but never heard you, it’s trouble. She thinks you are stalking her cubs.
That’s right.
Me and my brother were on an old logging road and saw some berries to pick. Just as I got out of the pickup I saw two cubs. I told him to “get in, there’s two cubs” The mamma was behind us. We were between her and the babies. She snorted and huffed and went right to them and they disappeared. Another minute or two would have been bad.