O.K guys, this is a hunting bear story but it comes up every year at elk camp.

We hunt up near the Selway. Some folks we have gotten to know over the years have a spike camp that they pack in about 6 miles up the mountain from their main camp. Quite a deal, takes many trips with the horses to get it all done. One year, they went in the night before opening day and found that the camp was totally trashed.. Tents ripped up etc. A bear had stopped by and helped itself. The funny part comes with the range in this bears taste. It tore apart the colman stoves to lick the old grease out of them. It drank a bottle of Joy dish washing soap. They had several 12 packs of pop and beer in the spring. It drank all the beer, all the regular pop, and one can of diet pepsi.. Its as if it could read the labels and thought diet pepsi tasted like crap. The best was the pile of snickers candy bar wrappers. It sat there and ate 3 bags of the small bars one at a time and left all the wrappers in a pile. These guys were pissed off. One said if he could find it he would shoot that bear..We told him it should be pretty easy to do. Any bear that just drank 50 cans of beer and a bottle of dishwashing soap should be passed out blowing bubbles behind a bush somewhere !!!