Read someone's entry on Trailjournals today (forgot to save the link and now I can't find it again) about a bear, to use the writer's words, that "ripped a pack off of a hiker". Don't know if they mean't ripped off in the literal sense or whether the bear just pilfered an unattended pack.
The journal entry said this took place at Deep Gap shelter last week and that rangers were warning folks 'bout Smoky.
Anybody got any more info on this?