Have you ever seen a black bear in the wild...up close and personal?!


Question: What did you do?

A black bear walked right into our campground last summer! All of a sudden, our dogs were running away from the tree they were tied to, practically choking themselves to get away. I looked up and a huge black bear was standing on her hind legs! It was only 15 feet away! My vision blurred and I thought, "We're going to die!!!" I have never been so scared in all my life!

I stood up from my chair and kept saying, "OMG, OMG, OMG!" I yelled at my husband to get the dogs in the car. Then I went to warn other campers. My husband pounded on a water can and scared her away. When I got back I was shaking and crying. I looked up the mountain and saw her two little cubs following her up the hill. She had cubs! That could have been really dangerous if we or the dogs had gotten in the way of her and her cubs.

Later I learned black bears aren't very aggressive and are usually looking for food.

p.s. My husband's first thought, he told me later, was,"Where's the camera!"


Answers: What did you do?

A black bear walked right into our campground last summer! All of a sudden, our dogs were running away from the tree they were tied to, practically choking themselves to get away. I looked up and a huge black bear was standing on her hind legs! It was only 15 feet away! My vision blurred and I thought, "We're going to die!!!" I have never been so scared in all my life!

I stood up from my chair and kept saying, "OMG, OMG, OMG!" I yelled at my husband to get the dogs in the car. Then I went to warn other campers. My husband pounded on a water can and scared her away. When I got back I was shaking and crying. I looked up the mountain and saw her two little cubs following her up the hill. She had cubs! That could have been really dangerous if we or the dogs had gotten in the way of her and her cubs.

Later I learned black bears aren't very aggressive and are usually looking for food.

p.s. My husband's first thought, he told me later, was,"Where's the camera!"

Yes, on two different occasions in fact.

The first time I was trout fishing, on a small shallow river, that wound through a lot of brush. I had been fishing for some time and it was getting dark.

As I waded in the stream, I came across a small black bear (maybe a 2-3 year old), that was in the thicket by the river. He was maybe 12 - 15 feet away from me. I'm not sure how I walked up on him, I think the sounds of the river, covered any slight noise I made.

Anyway, he shot out of the thicket and into the river by me. Now he was maybe 8 feet from me and I'm ready to wet myself.

Thankfully, he did an about face and ran downstream from me and disappeared. The adrenaline hit me so hard the small of my back ached.

So, I in the light of reason, I continued on my way, at a much faster pace.

The second time was in a National Forrest.

I was campng with a couple friends and we were seasoned campers. So, we know about putting food up in the tree's or in a car trunk and keeping the campsite clean.

Well a family with a couple little kids drives up and asks us about camping spots.One of the guys offers to show them a decent spot and they claim one of the camping spots, about 20 yards from us.

My buddy notices that just about everything their unpacking has never been used. He offers to help them and their just hopeless, as they've never camped before.

So, he comes and gets us to help them out.

Come to find out, that other than sleeping under a sheet in the backyard as kids, that they've never camped out before. So we set them up and tell them what they need to do, to cut down on night time visitors.

Well, by the second night they get lazy and instead of burning their food waste, they ditch it in the woods near their camp. Guess what, they get a visitor in the early morning and my little dog goes nuts.

I wake up as does everyone else and we see the bear running through the woods, then the stupid dog takes off after the bear.

Luckily, she came back after a few minutes.She acted like she chased off the bear all by herself, all 8 pounds of her.

We went to the newbies camp and they were hiding in their tent, like nylon was kryptonite to a bear. We saw that they had dumped food trash only 10 feet from their tent, not smart.

They packed up everything and left that day, they had enough of camping.

No

Yes, Backyards in New Jersey, U.S.

Yes! We had dinner together and him and his lovely family left.

Yes this summer, I even stroked it's silky mane.

nah. never unless youtube counts!

No

Yes, I have. I was taking a hike with my family in the Great Smoky Mountains and a black bear wandered into a clearing not five feet away from the edge of the trail. It was only a baby, but we thought that the mother might be around so we were very quiet and took care not to disturb it. Nobody was scared, and we got lots of cool pictures.

yes... small black bear in oregon. i ran..afraid to see his mother tho...:P

Wow!? Well this one time me and my friends were biking and dirt biking down to this swimming hole down the road, when all of the sudden 2 of ym friends who were ahed of me on dirt bikes (i was on a pedal bike) started yelling omg and driving back towards me i wasl ike what,what? They screamed at me "THERE'S A BEAR AND CUBS DOWN THERE!!!!"...It was quite the scare :S...hope that answers your question

I see them in my yard sometimes, and here they have be know to eat people and pets. They can be very aggressive!

no , i saw a lion

Yep I live in Montana and we have a apple tree in our backyard the kids and I used to love watching that bear it left big apple dump piles though eww
Then the dumb neighbor down the way killed I was pist!

nope, and i hope i never have to unless the bear is friendly.

I wish, I know in bear country there are extra things to do like keep your garbage away from camp ,hang the food and coolers up high from a branch . I would probably also have some pepper spray.
Had a skunk come to camp and a raccoon ounce ,that is about it.

I have seen black bears and grizzlies. Black bears are more afraid of you than you are of them. It's a black bear if it goes up a tree ahead of you, and a grizzly if it follows you.

We also had black bears visit a campground we were in a few years ago! Foolishly people were going up to them and giving them containers of yogurt and cottage cheese! My dogs went crazy also! I wish I would have had a camera!!

no

I live in Indiana and have never saw one here, But my friend and I went to New York- in 1998- and stopped on I-80 in Penn. stayed at a hotel there, the next morning there was a
maybe 1/2grown black Bear outside. some dumb people were out there trying to take pictures, I wasn't used to this and didn't want any pictures so I stayed inside till they were out of sight. but it was a sight to see...

Yes I have several years ago I was hunting in PA wile sitting in my tree stand I was listening to the chipmunks playing below.
Then it got real quiet and i herd foot steps.
I thought oh boy their is a big deer walking up under me>
I looked down the tree and to my great surprise their was a big old black bear looking up the tree at me.
Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place.



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