Two women told me about the bear when I was on my hike.
The ladies were on trail bikes and saw the bear in the direction I was headed. "It was scary!" one of the women said.
We were all a little nervous. There had been a bear attack just a few weeks earlier up on the ski hill. A couple had gone up to see the comet. They didn't bring food. There were no bear cubs. There was no reason to think they we…