i was on my honeymoon with my wife.
we were staying at my grandparents cabin, in the mountains (other side of the mountain of big bear).
i BBQ'ed us up some stakes for dinner. must've attracted him. he kept on circling the cabin and sniffing. he was down by the wood pile, 30 ft from the deck, when i made my first mistake.
i threw a stake at him expecting him to take it and leave. he stayed.
what we did was lock the doors, duh.
and we would keep track of where he was from the safety of the cabin.
at one point we lost track. so i went to the back door and lifted the curtains to have a look see.
there he was , ther i was, we were literally 5 inches from each other, face to face.