Now that I look back on it it is kinda funny, especially the part with my wife on the cell phone. She's a real girly girl.
I've probably had about 50 encounters with bears....everything from them coming into our camp at night to just watching them play with each other. I've seen a few big ones too. We don't have grizzley in NM. Just black bears. Just gotta watch sows with cubs.

We did have a guy who lived in the woods get killed by a mountain lion this year near Silver City NM. He had a habit of going out near a creek and shaving every morning. He was out shaving one morning and a cat got him.