I talked with my neighbor who came by today, never does, he was along the section of the PCT in the Bucks Lake Wilderness the same time as I was there yesterday, some how we missed each other. A bear charged him, huffing and such, he yelled at it, waving his hiking poles, it stopped, he turned his back to walk away and it charged again. He yelled again and waved his poles once a gain. Slowly backed away while the bear huffed some more then the bear retreated, he came home I guess, did not say if he completed his hike to Mt. Pleasant. This was just above Granite Gap, one of us had the time wrong as I was there at about the same time. Silver Lake is a short 7 mile drove or so from home, where the trail starts up to Rock, Mud Lakes by Granite Gap.
Duane