And just for a --
I think -- non-controversial current event on the lighter side --
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2018/08/...stanley-hotel/
This was especially amazing to me because my husband and I just stayed at the hotel last Thursday and Friday nights and have our own bear story to tell:
We were walking to downtown Estes Park last Friday morning. and encountered a hotel employee -- probably a maintenance man -- and he showed us wet/oily tracks of what he said was a "big male black bear". (I don't think it was the same bear in the video, though, because the tracks were about the size of my husband's hands with the fingers splayed, and the bear in the video does not appear to be that big.) Anyway, the man seemed very concerned about trying to figure out where it had gone, so The Stanley does take their bear "visitors" seriously. My husband later talked to the bartender about that, and he said that the bartender said that bears OUTSIDE the hotel are
very common because they are attracted to the trash areas (but usually only the early morning hours).
Oh, and bear visits to Rocky Mountain National Park campgrounds are not rare at all, either. We have only gone camping at the RMNP about four times, and we had one firsthand experience with a bear and one secondhand experience. The secondhand experience was that very late at night, there were a couple of forest ranger vehicles shining their lights around, and a ranger told that someone had actually reported a bear in the campground we were at, but we never saw it. However, the firsthand experience occurred in 2010, and a bear came within about 50 yards or so above our
tent campsite during the day! We saw it on the ridge directly above us, and our 16-year-old son actually crept to within about 25 feet of it, but he was quiet and stayed low and mostly hidden -- and he got some great photos of the bear.
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