[razorback-bert]

I use to see bears all the time backpacking and rafting in the Smokies.

Once met a couple hiking out with only a back frame left, after a bear tore up their gear getting food. We gave them food and water and told them to turn around go downhill as it was only a half day's walk out that away as opposed to a two day uphill climb.

[elkfersupper]

If left to their own devices, and with plenty of food, they tend to get kinda' big.

People shouldn't wander around in bear country without someone with a large-caliber weapon to watch their back.

We humans are not necessarily at the top of the food chain.