Possible Bear?

This past weekend a family headed out to Nick's Woods to take a Sunday hike and look around.

Their thoughts?
"The place was awesome!"

And that was despite the beer party trash at the northern end of the property.

The Saturday night rains had swollen the Sargents Brook to a roaring torrent.

The sun was out, the breeze was nice, and it was a perfect late summer day.

Now, rhyming with beer.... is steer?

No, no.

Bear.

Ok, it doesn't rhyme.

On the way back they came across a fresh print and it looked to big and too wide to be a dog, so they came home and looked it up on-line. Sure enough the print looked quite stronly bearish.

Now admittedly, we don't have photos of the print, and

no one saw the bear directly,

But....

There was a print much like this on the way back that wasn't there on the way up.

Folks in the neighborhood should keep an eye out!

Thanks Shelia!