Thirty-five miles from the nearest road in the Wyoming wilderness, Jeremy Morris learned an important lesson about miniature Hershey bars while working as a brand-new wrangler for a Wyoming dude ranch during what was to be a 12-day pack trip.

“The cook would make our lunches, and we always had a handful of those little candy bars in it,” Morris told Cowboy State Daily. “And I had my vest hanging outside of my tent with a couple of those little candy bars in it.”

They were so small, Morris forgot all about them by bedtime. Until, that is, at 2 a.m., when he heard some disturbing sounds in the middle of the night right next to his tent.

He woke with a start and saw something big and shadowy walking around his little tent. He was pretty sure it was a grizzly bear, so he stayed right where

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