I was a bear hunter back in the day. I had a bait eaten by a bear one morning, sixty pounds of meat. I had a lasting impression of that. These are not your normal Smokey mountain bears as Disney depictions, they will eat you. Coming down from the mountains in the spring you would think they would all be skinny, far from the truth. Some are still huge and hungry.
Sincere post you made.
Leave them alone.
Just wait until you have a cat in the tree watching your movements.
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