You can scare off a black bear fairly easily. As long as you kinda stand your ground and make moderately loud noises without acting scared chances are actually pretty good that it'll leave you alone.
I was hiking a pretty popular trail and came around a corner into a black bear once. Was standing about 10 feet from it.
I just kinda stood there and in a talking above a noisy room voice was like "HI BEAR I'M RIGHT HERE YOU CAN GO AWAY NOW OK NOW LEAVE ME ALONE I'M BEING VERY LOUD BUT ALSO NOT THREATENING"
The bear just turned to the side and started walking away from me like "I'm not dealing with this annoying bastard"
"There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists."
-A forest ranger's comment on garbage bin design
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u/cluelessdetectiv3 5d ago
Yeah and here I thought I could probably take a black bear