Climbing Trees Does NOT Keep You Safe From Black Bears

''What do we do?''

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Most likely was a mama bear and she didnt want them around and was trying to scare them.
If she had wanted them, she would have done so and all they'd have found was the camera with two dead bodies.
Funny how all these skitzos on here say they'd have blasted her.They think the answer to everything is just kill kill kill. Looks like they are going to get their wish with what is coming. Nature has a way of EVENING the SCORE.
They will soon see that killing is NOT the answer and that the answer lies in communing with nature.
Sadly they will have to go thru the flame to see that.

Since when can trees climb?

Most sensitive part of a bear is their nose. If they get too close, a good smack on the nose will send them running. It's as bad a kicking a guy in the nuts for a bear.

hmmm, just the 2 massive front paws with huge claws and the huge jaws with massive teeth to get past first then.....

I got that advice from someone who works on an island filled with bears up in Alaska. A good smack on the nose and they take off. They won't even fight back. They'll want nothing to do with you after that.

that sounds like we're told to hit a shark in the eye,best defense.a tree certainly wouldn't help me anyway,fat chance of climbing one.

That bear bear Shinnied up that Tree to escape that even bigger Bear. It was scared too.

A 357 would be like a flea bite to black bear
it would just piss the bear off
did you notice how fast they run

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OMFG!!!!!! LOL
That was crazy.

The ski patroller was having you on. In the wintertime both black and grizzly bears hibernate so you won't see them during ski season.

Although I don't live there any more, Whistler is my home town and the bears of Whistler are so well studied and tracked that they all have names. One bear in particular so endeared herself to Whistlerites that she had an obituary and memorial ceremony (and Facebook page) when sadly due to her habituation to humans and their garbage she became aggressive and had to be put down.

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I always thought it was cubs who climbed trees and adults who did not (too heavy). This one was light enough. Anyways, it could have been he or she was climbing the tree to escape that other bear and was as shocked as the guys to realize it was occupied.

Someone mentioned cinnamon bears. Have run into lots of bears and only one cinnamon - most beautiful bear I had ever seen. Also, by far, the largest I've ever seen. He was a reddish-tan and absolutely stunning. I've searched for pictures of something similar & even pics of cinnamon bears don't match him perfectly but I assume that is what he was for lack of a better match. He had no other color other than a beautiful, even reddish tan.

I was out in my front yard when I heard "clicking toenails" on the driveway pavement behind the parked cars and thought it was my dog escaping from back yard. I ran around the cars yelling for my dog and there was this beautiful bear staring at me just a few feet away when I was finally able to stop from my dead-run.

He cocked his head and gave me a look as if to say, "Dumb-ass! You really think you can take me?" since I was the one who had "charged" him. But he didn't make a move - just stared at me. I froze and just stared back. He could have taken one step and would have had me. I could have reached out and touched him. He was huge!

I finally started talking to him softly and backing up. I thought he had me. But I was able to back up to front door, about 15 feet behind me, without him making a move towards me but didn't go inside. I was mesmerized by him and couldn't stop looking at him. So beautiful. We stared at each other for another several minutes, at a safer distance then, and then he turned around & went back up drive-way.

I'll never forget him. He was one of the most beautiful creatures I had ever seen. His fur glistened in the sunlight and his huge face was different than the other bears - idn, more "chiseled" & well-defined & nose seemed longer. Absolutely beautiful.

Yep! They probably had some beef jerkey in thier packs.

For what its worth, I have a friend that met this guy who was mauled by a bear in Canada and the story about what happened is beyond weird. He has one arm that is totally permanently fucked up from the mauling.

The guy was riding his bike on some trails in Canada and that's all he remembers before waking up in a hospital.

And here's the story of the people who found him: the group of hikers that found him was walking down a trail and saw a mangled bike on the side of it. Then they heard weird sounds, like strange grunting, and they saw a trail in the dirt, like something had been dragged through the dirt. They made their way towards the grunting sound and they saw a big black bear burying a man in the dirt. The bear was burying the guy LIKE A BONE to save for later! The guy was unconscious and his arm was all mangled. I honestly don't remember what they said about what happened to the bear. All I know is that they were able to get the guy away from the bear and get him to a hospital.

Not shit. This is a true story.

Bears will bury your ass like a bone if given the chance.

That said, I also have a friend that owns a property deep in the mountains and he sees bears come up all the time and root around in the grass like squirrels. He lays out on his lounge chair and they come within feet of him and he isn't scared of them, nor they of him. He said they are kind of like squirrels. But squirrels you do not approach. I think unless they are starving, they will leave you alone. So different times of the year, they will react very differently to humans. You don't want to be around them when they are coming out of hibernation.

Duh. Neither does running into a bear's den.

Try waiting five hours in the NYC port authority bus station from 1AM till 6AM. You've been awake 30 hours finishing a job, you know that if you fall asleep for even a second you will have nothing left. You'll wish you where up in a tree surrounded by bears.

Animals are not the scariest thing around by far. Humans are far more dangerous.

Actually all bears eat when they come out of hibernation is grass for the first couple of weeks. They have to get their digestive system going.

Somebody said you can't run downhill to get away from a bear... Actually if the hill is steep enough you can. Bears front legs are way shorter, so if they get too much speed on a slope they go into a front roll.

If a grizzly is after you, try to get up a tree. If that fails, play dead. Grizzlies rarely eat anything they haven't killed themselves, although they will roll you around and take a couple test nibbles to make sure, so cross your fingers and don't make a sound.

Black bears can be frightened off but if it decides to attack, go for the eyes.

If either has cubs with it... tuck your head between your legs, pucker up and kiss your ass goodbye.