re: Since bears have been in the news lately. Have you ever seen one

I was hunting out of a camp at almost 9000 feet in Colorado between there and the vegetation line following an old game trail up. On the way up I saw a fairly fresh elk kill beside the trail. Nothing was around so didn't think anything of it till I was on my way back in the dark. Got near it and there was bone crunching sounds at the carcass. Then he smelled me and started popping teeth and growling. I went around him and stayed freaked out for the rest of that trip back to camp.