me the wife n my sister n her husband went ona id say 5 mile ride to one of the biggest mountain in our vicinity. we were walking up the mountain and got about halfways up id say about ehh....1600ft. anyway we were sitting down spying with binoculars at our beautiful land, we had west winds n low clouds, i had my itouch playin full blast and i sensed sumtin staring at us n closeby-so i look back and theres a friken bear face about 10ft from us! oo crap i was thinkin not panicking-half second later i see to our right about 12 ft from us a 2nd bear!! ooohhno!! these r frkn cubs! OOO CRAP!! i started panicking-wheres the momma!!??!! lol. we all got up n started walkin back down the mt. when we almost reached our 4 wheelers we saw that the momma bear was about 100ft from where we were sitting.
talk about scary man. lol. i had my 30-06 but i was the only gun and i didnt feel safe with them baby bears up close to us and i had no vis on their momma.

talk about a big adrenaline rush. 1st time ever we were trying to climb that mountain. i see bears every year and come close to them, but not that close LOL.
greens aka greeny