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Bears in the Sandias

From: Perky
Sent on: Thursday, June 24, 2010, 9:49 AM


 

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.