We stopped about .44 miles west of Pueblano Ruins to let another trek pass on the trail. As we waited for our crew to get started again one of our leaders saw a decent sized black bear up the mountainside under 100 yards off the trail. We were .44 miles west of Pueblano Ruins. He did not care about us as he was busy flipping rocks and pushing open old tree bark for his next meal.

After seeing the black bear, the scouts got surprisingly better at hanging bear bags. They started paying closer attention to their smellables a little closer each night.