I read your story.
The best possible outcome would have been that the woman was mauled to death.
Stupid should be fatal.
And has been...
As in the heavily menstruating woman, who had been told specifically, not to go into bear country at that particular time.
She assured all that she had experience and she had a gun.
They found her tent torn into little pieces, her body was found within 40 feet or so, her feet still entangled in her sleeping bag, her upper body half eaten and the entire gory mess lightly buried by sticks and brush...indicating the bear had intentions of returning to his meal.
Oh, and her gun...a .22 revolver, in her back pack, some distance from the scene.