Task: Question Answering
Input (English): Context: The idea , of course , was to put sardines or some other deliciously - appealing - to - bear food at one end of the trap and wait for the bear to walk through . Clang , the trap shuts . But the day passed and no bears . The next night was the camp out night . ( Even though the camp was an hour from town - WAY out in the foothills of the Rockies and the ONLY WAY out of camp , was to drive BACK to town - they always took the kids even further down the road to sleep under the stars on Tuesday or Wednesday night . 
Question: Why would the narrator put Sardines out ?
Output (English): They were trying to lure some Rocky Mountain - based bears .