Scary-the only time one was watching me, I only realized it when the back of my neck felt cold and crawly-I knew it was in the woods just off the trail. I did have the presence of mind to back out, waving a stick and singing loudly-”Dirty Deeds” was the 1st song that came to my terrified mind...
Since bears have been reintroduced to the area less than 20 miles away recently and are moving this way-may I ask how you got out of the nose-to-nose encounter with a bear unharmed? Just in case-but I hope it never happens. I was about to ask you about that last evening when it started to snow, which made my Hughesnet signal-as well as DirecTV go down and stay down till 8 AM...
I ran away screaming.
I was on a Trail Crew for the US Forest Service up on the CC Divide.
We had been working on a trail and ran into a huge Huckleberry growth.
We came back the next day with a brush saw to clear the Huckleberries.
My Trail Crew partner was about a half mile behind me.
I strapped on my cutting chaps.
I put the saw on the ground to pull the starting cord.
I pulled the cord and a bear exploded out of the bushes.
The training at that time was to get on your stomach.
I ran screaming down the trail.
I don’t know why the bear didn’t take me.
The only reason I can come up with is the sound of the chainsaw motor threw it off.