I guess it’s a good thing he didn’t have a chocolate bar stashed in his pocket.
We had some bear encounters during our boy scout ‘vacation’ trip to the porcupine mountains in da yoop. Thankfully, we had our food hanging by rope from the trees, but one of the bears actually got up there and was trying to grab the rope and pull it in.
We left the next day and spent the rest of the week ‘camping out’ in the scoutmaster’s cabin on the au sable.
Good times...
It was a great stay...most of the time we were there anyway. One night we had gotten distracted by fishing and boating and didnt even think to come in to have supper until long after it was dark. I do know better but I had some very thick Tbones and I was frying them up in a pan deep with butter as the late night hours approached. It was shortly after that when the outside motion light started coming on and going off. I ignored it for a while thinking it was a bad sensor or night critters. I wasnt entirely wrong but it was a somewhat larger creature than I was envisioning. Apparently a bear had thought that I had made a steak for him too. This is when we remembered that the motors were out so we couldnt retract the stairs, just a couple steps and a screen door keeping us safe. The kids were terrified that it was going to come in during the night and after a few hours of crying I drove everyone to a hotel for the night.
Theyre always so rude. If theyre going to show up for a meal uninvited they should at least bring a bottle of wine or a fruit salad or something.