Brodi Ashton: A bear charged in my direction. Here’s how I responded.

I went camping the other day, only to find out — after I’d returned home — that a black bear and her cub were spotted in the campground. We were lucky not to have crossed paths, but believe it or not, that would not have been my first close encounter with a black bear.This brings us to a segment I like to call “That one time my mom thought I was mauled by a bear, and why I will owe her for the rest of my life.”It all started when I was in Steamboat Springs, Colo., f