Do bears s***e in the woods? No, they s***e on mountain bike trails........

Relocated to Jasper on Saturday hired mountain bikes the next day and hit the trails around town. Bit nervous in the morning though in a group of eight as there had been a grizzley bear seen near the trail - great biking setup. In the PM three of us went out to ride another trail. About a kilometer in at a junction we met a ranger with shot gun (and other toys) going to scare a bear off one of the trail (fortunately in the opposite direction to us! We rode for a bit more and encountered another four riders, one of whom had just come from where we were going and pointed out that he had seen a bear a little way up the trail. We bunched in a group of six nd took off. Rounding two bends we came across a grizzly bear around 20 meters from the track grazing happily on a bank. I glanced at it thought cool and kept peddling hard - this was a little too close for comfort. The bears are everywhere.....................