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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LordEntrails" data-source="post: 9426578" data-attributes="member: 6804070">Philmont bear story... My wife has banned me from telling this anymore when she's around so now you get to suffer...Background, at Philmont (and it's a good practice anywhere with bears), every night you hang up bear bags. This is everything that has a smell to it. Food, lotion, chapstick... everything. You tie it up at least 15 feet off the ground between 2 trees. Not just over a single tree limb because then the kamikaze squirrels will jump onto them and tear them open with their claws.So one morning my troop was lazy (again) and I got up to go get our bags. About 100 feet our of camp. I dropped our three bags and was winding up the ropes while another scout took one of the bags back. Suddenly I saw a big bear mosey out of the bushes about 15 feet away headed straight to me.Scared I grabbed the two bags, threw them over my shoulders and tried to calmly walk back to camp. She (I learned later) followed me. With her nose sniffing and touching the bags. (In hindsight I'm glad she didn't try to swipe one of them open!) As I reached the edge of camp and everyone was still in their tents and sleeping bags I start calling out as calmly and quietly as I could, "Guys, guys!" "Guys, bear!"Next thing someone stuck their head out of the tent, and yelled "Hey look, there's a bear!" I thought to myself 'No sh%t!' The commotion and noise that followed caused her to retreat back into the bushes and tree line.It was the fastest our troop had gotten up and going all week. About 20 minutes later we saw her walking through the tents of the troop next to us (perhaps 150 away) as they were all in tents still sleeping. One adult stuck his head out to check on the noise, when hushed him back inside. And watched her for a few minutes before she returned to the tree line where she gathered her two cubs and proceeded to mosey on to forage elsewhere.</blockquote>

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