the bare necessities

parked for the night, late afternoon in british columbia's cariboo mountains, happy hour completed i was about to wander down a logging road

 

wandering up that same road was this healthy bruiser, who saw me scramble for a lens and meet him/her outside

 

non-plussed, bear went about bear things while i tried to maintain my excitement...i began to talk to bear which is when he really perked up and decided to take cover

 

i resumed my walk, though down another log road as i was parked at a four-road junction, i scared bear again (in truth, he scared me) as he was still in the area, doing bear things in dense bush

 

at 0213 hours, the dashcam registered movement...during my morning pretrip i found three paw prints on the front fender and hood of my van, never heard or felt a thing

Done