It's always a good idea to hang your food up on a high limb when you camp out in out mountains. Choose a long slender branch that a bear won't be able to climb.
Two guys were hiking in Desolation Wilderness when they unexpectedly
came across a very large brown bear. Immediatey, they both took
off running. After a few minutes, one guy abruptly stopped
running, took off his backpack, and pulled out a pair of running shoes.
The other guy saw this and was wondering what was going on. So
he stopped, ran back to the first guy and asked, "Why are you
putting on your running shoes? Do you really think you are going
to be able to out run that bear with those?"
The other guy replied, "I don't have to out run the bear, I just
have to out run YOU!"