Bears are funny. They are super scaredy cats until they arent. There must be a lot of food nearby.We saw bear on both Saturday and Sunday, and I'm still shaking my head over both encounters.
On Saturday morning, we took a hike to the logging road that runs across the back on my property and found very fresh, large, bear droppings (looked like it came out of a horse). So, we go back down to the cabin and get a trial camera to set up there. We go back up on the ATV (which is not quiet) and stop and my daughter gets off (I stay on with my granddaughter) and she goes 30' in front of the ATV. Two minutes later she looks further in front and spots a large bear that runs off when she sees it. We found some of the footprints and they were good size.
I'm shaking my head that the ATV did not scare the bear away before my daughter saw it!
On Sunday we hike up the trail behind my cabin. It goes uphill for a bit then it levels as we go around to the right, and we retrieve a trail cam that is not working near the back corner of my property (and move it). On the way back down the hill about a half hour later, only about 75 yds above my cabin, my granddaughter is walking about 20' in front of my daughter and I and all of a sudden, we hear branches breaking and my granddaughter turns around and comes running back to us. The breaking branches continue (almost sounding like a herd of elephants were coming) and a medium sized bear comes out of a tree less than 50 yds away and runs away.
I wonder if he was there when we went up the hill, and just was afraid he was spotted when we were coming back down!
Then my daughter goes to the outhouse on Saturday night and tells me she heard something on the driveway. Well, the trail cam says she did!
We had a weekend adventure! Notice that both pictures are from the same camera, so you see where the outhouse is in the daytime picture.