Bear buffet open in Aspen.

City bears have returned to our fair city. Heard tales this morning of a mother standing guard outside a home while the cubs ransacked the kitchen. We’ve now got bear families with a history of dining on people food in Aspen going back several generations. Plus da bears have a powerful sense of smell and Aspen around cocktail/barbecue hour can probably be sniffed out by bears miles away, so we also probably have some recent immigrant bears delighted to have found the mother lode of sweet summer food. “Garbage kills bears” is an oft-sighted bumper sticker in Aspen and on this enclosure there is even a little notice to “be bear aware,” despite the dumpster’s normal “all you can eat” status. While walking home at night, if you hear what sounds like an alien thrashing around in a dumpster, that would be a bear, being a bear.