Another year, another week adventuring in Colorado with Torrey, and another BEAR!! This time around the bear in question was in an established campground, attempting to get into the dumpster. Torrey saw him first as he ran across the campground road in front of us (we were in the car, driving around to find a suitable campsite) and pointed him out to me. We stopped not to far from where he was trying to get into the site's bear box, which is pictured above. When he was unsuccessful he sniffed around the site, but when he got close to a tent I honked my car horn and he ran off. After we found the camp host and reported our sighting, showing him the videos and pictures we took, the campsite's occupant came to find us. The older lady only had her dog with her, and at the time of the bear's visit she was asleep in her tent - like, the same tent the bear had been sniffing around. She thanked us for scaring it off, and we chatted a bit more, with her debating whether or not to sleep in her car that night. We never found out if she slept in her car or not, but I can tell you one thing: Torrey and I sure did! We didn't even bother setting up the tent that night, prefering to stay in the safety of a hard-sided vehicle. We had no more sightings of the bear, and actually slept great while in our car. I doubt we would have slept as soundly if we'd been in our tent... That being said, I still think we're incredibly lucky to have seen a bear in the mountains for two years in a row!
No comments:
Post a Comment