My daughter and son-in-law were headed down to Greensboro, NC from NJ last friday and decided to do Skyline Drive in Shenandoah NP and car camp along the way.
Before entering the park they met a thru hiker who was suffering from the heat, so they gave him a ride to Front Royal to find a hotel with pool. His name is Hybrid and he had just recently moved up from the ground to a hammock. Hopefully we'll see him on the forum.
Once in the park they ran into three bears; papa bear, momma bear and baby bear. Oh wait, that's a different story.
Two bears were roadside and totally unafraid of cars and people. The third was on a trail. Again, it could care less about people and they had a hard time getting it to move along so they could pass. Between the heat and the bold bears they decided not to camp and just drove straight to NC.
Being from northwestern NJ, the kids are no strangers to bears but what bothered them was that the ones they ran into had no fear of humans at all. They also knew that Turtle Feet had her hammock trashed by a bear in this area last month.
Forget the lions and tigers, its just "bears oh my!"
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