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Healthy bears in Sierra madre. Just posting for fun / good pic. These are very active all around the canyon area and chantry campgrounds. Camp bear smart and perhaps canisters are a must vs. just tying up (I use one - worked with battle scars at hoegees).

True - big cats. Here in Sierra Madre a few years ago, we had two that were interfacing down into some properties - big mountain lions, not bobcats. I have a story at home: one night, year and half ago, my mother-in law was staying in a downstairs bedroom here, window facing side driveway. 3am she h...

Thanks for the input! I assumed this bear was well used to campers and tents and that's why it didn't spook so completely. But being just me and the 9yr old there, I had a good bit of scared caution in me, lol. There are so many day picnics and, unfortunately, trash around there that I guess this is...

Was at Hoegees Aug 2/3 - there was collectable water, although a trickle. Enough flow to get some good running off a couple rock falls into my small swayer filter squeeze bag. It was accessible right at the campsite, farther south there were dry sections where it must disappear to an underground flo...

My son and and I camped at Hoegees a week ago. We had a very persistent bear at night that foraged right up to perimeter of our tent and our table a couple feet away. We are bear aware and had no smells inside tent or at table area. The campsite was clean. We used a bear can kept 100yds away. We cou...