This has happened on two of our trips, one last year and one this year. . . we've set up camp had dinner cleaned up everything its just about dusk and a curious deer starts roaming around our camp. Actually not just around our camp right in our camp probably withing about 5-10 feet of us at times. Now I'm not afraid of the deer per say but it is unnerving to me that they are that brazen. Do you think this is a sign of them being fed and that the bears may be the same way? The deer look very healthy so being rabid is slim and they show fear if you make a loud noise or fast movement at them but then they come right back. Both occasions we've been on the more popular trails so I worry about ignorant people feeding them. Has anyone else had any experiences like this? This has happened in WV in the Seneca area and Ottercreek area.


Edited by wld_rthr_b_ridng (07/14/08 01:36 PM)