do not even take snacks into your tent for later in the evening binging- if you have a car nearby, or anywhere for that matter- don’t leave food in it either- unless you wanna test how good your insurance is-
Do not rub sardine oil all over you before you go to bed either- nor tie chunks of liver to you when you go on hikes- (seriously though, if you hike, even carrying food and sodas will attract bears to follow you-)
black bears ‘supposedly’ are intimidated by loud noises and having things thrown at them- i have fortunately never had to test this- but an aggressive bear that ‘crosses the line’ so to speak isn’t going to be intimidated by much-
i have been close to bears, and ‘usually’ they just go their own way- but there are circumstances that up the risk of attack- food, cubs, starving bears, sick bears, injured, etc- I’ve hiked many many miles, and have only seen a couple of bears- I’ve likely walked right past some and not even known it- though many many times you will come into an area, and the odor is quite strong- putrid smelling- but never see anything moving when i have come across such areas-
The chance of being attacked though is even less than dying from covid- so in other words- very very rare- near zero % chance-
Hey, have you been talkin to my wife?
Camping on the backside of Half Dome 40 years ago me and two others had our bear bag hanging 25’ off the ground with the line thrown over a large Ponderosa Pine and tied off to the trunk.
Around dark two cubs ran right through the camp to the tree which mama bear was already climbing. She walked out on the large limb and pawed at the line.
We tossed a very large pile of dried brush on the fire to get it raging then bombarded mama with firewood. Bear up, cubs down and a rainfall of wood. She scampered down and reared up on hind legs and gave a nice roar while we pelted her some more.
She and cubs left and we moved the bag to a set of cables we didn’t know were in the campground.