[Philmont] Bear Tooth Marks 1976

Our most significant event was a visit from a bear cub and his mama bear named “Lulabelle” (600 lb black bear that had to be relocated) when we were at Cypher’s Mine. Jacob’s camera had a tooth hole in the top and my pack had bear snot all over it where a side pocket got ripped off from a forgotten hot chocolate packet discovery. We were all sleeping in a big three sided Adirondack shelter instead of tents and could hear some twigs and branches cracking as soon as our fire dimmed down. The cub was up one of the trees we had hung our bear bag from and was trying to reach out to the bag. We threw rocks at it and it half-slid, half-fell down the tree wimpering. That’s when we saw Mama Lulabelle! We beat the pots and pans with all our might and blew whistles to try to scare her off. She reached up and slashed the bear bag after standing on her hind legs and half our stuff dropped to the ground. She then drug and scattered it up the hill into the woods. What I recall
 as particularly funny was the fact that no one wanted to leave the perimeter of the fire any further than it would light up so we scoured the ground for tiny twigs for greater illumination and a greater diameter from the fire to search for more wood. We then donned the miner’s lamps on our heads and tried to recover as much of our stuff up the hillside as possible. It did require a significant side hike to another commissary in the backcountry to reprovision but we all had quite a story to tell with tooth holes and bite mark souvenirs.
   
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