Glad all are OK. Bears are common around here too, but usually you just see their rump as they run into the woods - they are much more skittish than deer (which seem to relish playing chicken with cars).

I almost hit one descending Going to the Sun Road after a moonlight ride Wednesday. Very few cars that early in the morning. I came around a corner to a straightaway and was about to really open up when I saw a car parked in the middle of the road, then I saw the two bears. OK, I had plenty of time to stop (about 100 yards), but we were in a standoff for a while until a local just drove through us and scared the bears off the road. Looked like a small sow and a yearling maybe.