Must be Halloween Bears

Wednesday we (Sky and Zoe) went on a ride to Rattlesnake.  It must have been very spooky because Sky wouldn't cross any of the sets of rocks (and his usual pipe).  My friend had to get off, after many tries, walk him back and forth over and then he would cross.  Zoe wouldn't cross the last bridge-same thing I got off and walked back and forth then we could cross it.  On the way back Zoe wouldn't cross the last set of rocks.  This time I just waited for her just a few minutes then she went on-easier than the bridge.  The trail is so narrow in some of these places that to do some hard work while they won't cross something is difficult to accomplish.  The hard work idea usually works great for Zoe, she decides that it's much easier to do the "scary" thing than to put up with the work.  But it wasn't to be today.  I did notice that there was alot of bear scat on the trail.  And my other half told me that bears like to mark their territory and paths on large rocks.  So maybe it was those scary Halloween bears.   Our ride was 20 minutes longer to get there than it was getting back.  The way back is usually faster but not that much faster.  We must have spent quite some time dealing with the rocks/bridge.