Since he was already in the backcountry there wasn't anyplace to re-locate him to, so we put him to sleep. We can only re-locate within the park boundaries. They did a study at Yosemite and found that more than a third of the bears they relocated come back, usually in a few days, since Yosemite isn't all that big. We've only relocated one family group, a mother and cubs, in the last two or three years. People just have to learn to be smarter than the bears, even though that's a bit hard for some people.
Bears are just part of the mountains, one of the natural dangers.
If there weren't anything at all dangerous here, it would be less fun for a lot of people, less of a challenge. It had clouded up in the afternoon but the would-be storm dissipated without producing any rain. You know, every year, somebody gets hit by lightning because they stay on the top of Whitney in a storm. I mean, it's fantastic up there, and you're pretty safe in the hut, but we still haven't gotten around to grounding it. We plan to do it the next time we call in the helicopter to unload the toilet.