So bright and early Saturday morning (3:00 a.m.) We loaded up to go and find me a bear! I was soo tired ( I don't do mornings) but soo excited-! I wanted to check this one bait (Christian) to see if it had been hit . We got about 1 mile from the bait and the dogs blew up!! They were going nutz rigging the smell of the bear!! So John turned them out. They took off and were howling the whole way up the mountain-- we checked the bait and it had been hit-- hooray! They sounded like they're on a hot trail-- we drove around to the other side of the mountain. John said get your gun we're going!! So we started a death march up this mountain seriously super steep! about 45 minutes later we were getting close to the dogs-- I was about to die - seriously we got up under the tree that the dogs were at -- and sure enough there is my bear!! Right about then, I started to pass out-- we had climbed and gained tons of elevation really fast - - I was tired and excited and Chet turned around to see if I was ok, just as I was about to fade away- - he sat me down really fast and let me catch my breath!! I got all situated -- they called the dogs of the tree and I wacked it!! UP the tree it went just as if nothing had happened to it!! I got it in my sights again and wack-- down it came with half the tree!! The bear rolled down the hill forever (cuz its steep!) I was soo excited all I could do was lay down on the hill and try to not pass out again!