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Bears in the Smokey Mountains????
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10/02/21 06:33 PM
10/02/21 06:33 PM
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Gary Benson
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Are they common around Gatlinburg? My Sis and friends want to see bear!
Life ain't supposed to be easy.
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Re: Bears in the Smokey Mountains????
[Re: Gary Benson]
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10/02/21 06:52 PM
10/02/21 06:52 PM
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Yes I just got back yesterday. I saw 2
Trapping is what built North America, why take that away?
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Re: Bears in the Smokey Mountains????
[Re: Gary Benson]
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10/02/21 06:53 PM
10/02/21 06:53 PM
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That one was probably 250’ away
Trapping is what built North America, why take that away?
pro second amendment-- pro God-- pro Trump-- Pro America!
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Re: Bears in the Smokey Mountains????
[Re: Gary Benson]
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10/02/21 07:01 PM
10/02/21 07:01 PM
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Yes we stayed in a place outside Gatlinburg this summer and had a large one try to follow me into house. Glad she yelled to me. Just got done fly fishing that was my wife that yelled
Last edited by mississippiposse; 10/02/21 07:07 PM.
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Re: Bears in the Smokey Mountains????
[Re: SNIPERBBB]
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10/02/21 07:03 PM
10/02/21 07:03 PM
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Cades cove is usually a good bet. Occasionally one walks through town in Gatlinburg Occasionally one walks through stores in Gatlinburg like happened earlier this year. Or burgles one as happened to a candy store in town a few years back. Never, ever turn your back on a national park bear. They have no fear and most are expecting handouts. Don't do that either.
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Re: Bears in the Smokey Mountains????
[Re: white marlin]
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10/02/21 07:23 PM
10/02/21 07:23 PM
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Posts: 17,652 Rodney,Ohio
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you have to ask if there are bears in "Smokey" mountains???
"Only YOU..." Common and sighting a bear are two different things. Took me almost 15 years to see one on vacatioms to pigeon forge/Gatlinburg to see a bear. First time I found one...darn near walked right into it. Came over a rise and it was 50ft away and gorging on cicadas as it was one of the big 17 year cicada hatches. Back when my dad was a kid in the 60s there were families of bears in every tourist parking lot waiting to be fed.
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Re: Bears in the Smokey Mountains????
[Re: Gary Benson]
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10/02/21 07:54 PM
10/02/21 07:54 PM
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Saw one eating trash 25 years ago outside our chalet.
Don't know where he is now.
Levi
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