From the accounts that I read, those hikers were being stalked. That is a totally different situation. You don't mess around when you are being stalked, and the group should not have split up. Also, they were on foot. We were on bikes on a pretty steep descent. The bear was actually trying to get away from us. He crossed from one side of the road to a small wooded area on the other side. We came riding long. He wanted to continue in the direction he was heading but there was a house back there and there was someone outside doing work. The six of us were not there that long because we wanted to make sure he didn't feel threatened by being boxed in.

Get out on the road instead of developing doom and gloom scenarios based things you read, especially in the New York Post. BTW...Do you text and/or talk on the phone while driving?