Rule of thumb: put your thumb out. If you cover the bear, you’re fine. If you can see the bear around your thumb, you’re too darn close!
Guide Nate Smith is explaining to us the code we should live by in California’s Tuolumne County, as we drive to Yosemite National Park.
Because, away from the lively cities and palm tree-lined beaches that are the trademarks of West Coast USA, there are bears to beware. And this is Bear Country.