The Camper/Trailer involved was the one parked just past the pay station at the picnic ground we Hashed at, this happened yesterday:
An East Mountains man had no choice but to fight back when a big bear seemed determined to get inside his camper Tuesday morning.
Longtime Sulphur Canyon picnic ground host Jim Hughes says a bear approached his camper and began clawing at the window.
From inside his camper, Hughes thought he could scare the bear off right away -- "I hollered at him and slapped on the wall from inside a couple times" -- but the bear didn't want to leave and even broke the window.
"He just didn't want to stop," he said. "It seemed like the more I yelled the more he wanted to get in, which is extremely abnormal."
Hughes said when the bear's nose and claws were inside the window he whipped the bear with a clock.
"It wasn't a direct hit, per se��� I think I tagged him a little bit."
After a couple minutes, Hughes pulled a small door and window alarm; the shrieking apparently did the trick. The bear wandered back off into the forest.
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In the last three days, the Department of Game and Fish has received 16 calls of bear sightings in the East Mountains.