Another fantastic story
Lovely views and the bear encounter of the 3rd kind, that's something to remember!
I'm a bit behind reading stories on WH, had 2 weeks of hillwalking holidays... Well, to be honest, just 1 week cause for the second one weather turned really nasty. Still we managed 5 Munros, 2 Grahams, some low-land strolls and 2 ruined castles. No bears though but plenty of blood- hungry ticks to keep us company
I have never seen a bear in the wild, but in Polish Tatry they aren't that rare. Still, in the last 100 years there were only 10 cases of bears attacking people. I guess the animals prefer to mind their own business... And I remember a shocking story from 2007, when a group of tourists encountered a young brown bear (1.5 years old so still in "cub" age). They started feeding him with sandwiches and of course the bear followed them expecting more grub. They got scared and started throwing stones at him, eventually drowning the poor animal in the stream
Three of these "tourists" were later given financial penalties but the damage was done. A sad story.