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Posted on 05/06/2020 11:15:20 AM PDT by SJackson
A couple camping southwest of Colorado Springs got a rude awakening when a bear started to rustle through their campsite, causing a commotion by knocking over a stove and plates. However, what happened next was far more invasive.
According to a report from Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW), the bear reared up and placed its paws on the couples tent. The bear then fell forward onto the tent, causing it to collapse. The incident happened at 1:30 AM Monday morning at the Golden Eagle Campground off of Highway 115.
After the tent collapsed, the bear retreated a bit before turning and huffing at the couple. The couple was then able to scare off the curious bear by shouting and starting their car alarm.
While the woman reported that she was scratched on the head by the bear, no injury was visible when the report of the event was filed on Monday. The tent’s rainfly was damaged, but not the tent itself.
“By the descriptions of the bear and by studying its footprints, it appears to be a juvenile bear,” CPW Officer Aaron Berscheid said. “Its behavior sounds more as if it was just curious rather than aggressive. There were no food attractants at the campsite. I think it was just a curious young bear.”
(Excerpt) Read more at outtherecolorado.com ...
Same story here, although my friend was sleeping in the tent when the bear ripped it open and made off with the cooler containing bacon.
Actually, it was the governor dressed up as a bear, trying to enforce his “no camping” edict.
Hmmm, I thought bear boxes or hanging food 100 yards away was best practice. Anything that smells like a free meal - they can smell from miles away - is going to bring them sniffing around looking for a snack.
Can’t blame a bear for being hungry in the springtime (or summer or fall).
Colorado Rockies about 1969, we were in a Natl Park campground, my big brother took the dinner trash to the can across the road, 15 feet away, turned around before he crossed the road back to us a bear had knocked the top off of the can and was digging for dinner.
Hope she doesn’t have to explain the scratch on her head to her husband... /s
NO WAY! What will the Commies think of next?
A co-worker of mine has a sign in his cubicle saying “Sleeping bags are the Soft Tacos of the bear world.”
Now that's a good one!
Anyone who leaves ANY foodstuffs within reach at their campsite in bear country is an idiot. Or wears the clothing that they cooked in when they get into their tent.
That is why the bear thought they were food.
City folk...
Growing up in the mountains, we either learned from experience the hard way or were taught what not to do in advance. Camping and the do’s and don’ts were a part of outdoor school in 6th grade back then. Orienteering, firearms shooting, first aid, edible wild plants, all that goodness they won’t teach now for liability reasons and/or that’ll get you fired and jailed for nowadays. It was a good primer for when you went on backpacking and camping jamborees in Boy Scouts a couple years down the road. And Mr. Skunk De Pew is not a fella you want to irritate up close. We had our family mutt as a kid who would go off on her little all-day ‘let’s see what I can chase down’ sessions there on the ridges, and more than once she came home after cornering a skunk. She usually spent a few days sleeping in the basement until she had enough baths to smell fragrant but tolerable, and come back upstairs. (FYI: milk and tomato juice baths to get the stank off from a skunk spraying are old wives’ tales. It’s like dye from the husk of a freshly dropped walnut or the stalk berries from an Indian paint brush - it’s just plain gotta wear itself off. It all gets into the pores of your skin.)
My Father was stationed in Fairbanks, Alaska during the Korean war. He and a couple of fellow GI’s went on a fishing weekend, on the first night in camp the were asleep and heard a noise outside their tent and looked out to see a Grizzly Bear going through the supply foot locker, the bear took out the box of Brillo Pads and ate it, turned around and wandered of into the forest...the mental picture of the things to come...
Just Yogi and Booboo looking for a snack.
Growing up we used to camp out in Yosemite often. The bears would rustle through our campground, and my dad told me they’d never attack the tent unless there was food in there. And I believed him!
Please add me to the outdoors list.
The bear thought it was a low calorie “wrap” with humans in it!
I had to have a cage 6’X10’ cage built with a chainlink top so I can feed birds and squirrels in our garden here in Eureka ca. I have lots of photos of bears in our yard. One is of a mama & 3 cubs just off the deck...
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