We took a house-guest up to Tahoe Tuesday and on the way back just West of the airport on Hwy 50 we had to wait for about 20 minutes or so for road work and our friendly neighborhood bear showed up on the bike/running path and decided to cross the road, and he took these pics.

Black Bear?...

Ruidoso, NM has quite a few of them and its the reason i love camping there...

Nice pic...

Rasdas, black bear all we got here--thank goodness.

No Kodack Bears for the Chief....

Charlie

Whoops, Kodiak Bears...my bad, thinking of camera moment or something else....

Charlie

Did anyone try and pet it and take *cute* picture?

"...the sign said 'bear left', so we went home."

Looks kind of small, my gal used to have a dog that big, LOL.

-JT

Cool . . .

We had a black bear sniffing around camp early yesterday morning . . .

Bah!

I dont believe it. Bears cant take pictures.

that happened to me one morning, on my way to work.

Bears are known to be some of the most rude members of the animal kingdom.

We've got woodchucks that big around here.

I'd shoot it!

Cali blackbear not too big, I've only seen a few, never saw one bigger than mebbe 375 lbs. and usually they are trying hard to get away from you.

Still...

They are quite curious and have never had a problem with them...they do go near campsites (have a few pics will post later) and dont seem to mind people...generally though they are off and running back up the hill...

No, not that big...but when standing even the small ones seem to be at least 5 to 6 ft tall...