[tkln]

Walking the dogs this morning on a trail very close to our condo, which is pretty high in elevation and also a very quiet area...I'm on this trail twice a day - morning and afternoon - and haven't seen much in the way of wildlife. Dogs were smelling something from the get go, and then heard a sound that wasn't going away...they ran over to a tree and I heard something up above - I thought a bird, squirrel (silly me, ha ha)....look up and there is a dark brown furry thing climbing it's way up the tree (it was already pretty far up there). It looked to be a pretty decent size - at least 50lbs or so? My initial thought was bear cub and I got out of there asap, thinking mama would be close by and I would not want to encounter her. I asked our property manager and he said it was possible, suggested a porcupine as another possibility but looking at images online, it definitely did not look like that. Anything else it could've been?

[AmILost]

Black bear cubs are very arboreal. Their first instinct at sensing danger is to climb the nearest tree. Even adults are good climbers. I'd put money on it being a bear cub that you saw.

Good idea on getting out of there quickly.

[arctichomesteader]

There's a good chance it was a bear. Porcupines get rather large too.

[tkln]

Figures, one time I didn't have the camera with me. Then again, knowing me, the amount of time I would have spent fumbling with it to get a shot might not have been a good idea, lol.