I talked with Tan Dan yesterday at the springs about his Bear encounter. He told me that the bear had come up behind him and had made some sort of grunting sound and he turned his head to look and the bear grazed the top of his head with one of the claws on its paw. He showed me a small cut on top of his head. I know black bears are around even though in all my years of hiking in the local mountains I have never seen one. Just tracks. Every once in a while one will be spotted down in the desert here in the Victor Valley.