Yesterday a friend and I were training for a ride we’re hoping to do this Saturday. Our ride took us behind the hotel and along Ship Creek. About a mile or so past the hotel, we came upon a bear with two cubs! I got my phone out to take a picture, but the bear started walking towards us and I didn’t want to be on America’s stupidest home videos of a man photographing his own mauling. We backed up around a bend where the bear was out of sight. I explained that we were halfway through the loop and if we turned around, we could ride home and still get our training in. Kristin explained that we could also just wait for the bear to amble off the trail, and keep going. In the end, cooler heads didn’t prevail as they never do, and we kept going. I rang my bell for a ways to alert any wildlife that we were coming and we didn’t see the bears again. Whew!