[Evans, Marv]

Good advice about the food. Just like any other animals you don't want to encourage, keep what they're interested in unavailable to them. I've come face to face with several bears that have always run away. That doesn't mean they will always do that. I've seen where they've bent back the doors of VW campers to gain access. Once I was hiking in the Sierras and passed a tree, heard a noise and looked up. There was a pair of bear cubs. My first reaction was to think how cute they were. My second was OMG, mother must be close by. I just continued walking as if nothing had happened. Once I came face to face at the corner of my cabin with a bear that lived around our living quarters and raided trash cans at night. She was big, and we called her Matilda. We both had a look of "Oh Schit!" on our faces and ran the other way.