[RWebb]

a lot depends on how hard the winter & preceding autumn were - bears become torpid during winter and live off of stored fat supplies

if they did not build up lots of fat in the fall and/or the winter was cold, then you are liable to have one hungry bear in the next spring

bears are smart enough that they are are very individual -- you cannot predict their behavior that easily from bear to bear

species do differ a lot -- a griz is usually an attitude bear - they evolved as the meanest SOB in the valley (or plains) and nothing took them on except an entire pack of wolves until the early Indians arrived in N. Amer. about 50k years ago

while black bears evolved in the presence of the grizzly, and its behavior usually shows that it expects there to be somebody meaner around

you also get into the whole mother with cubs thing + the teenage bears who just want to flatten something...