My family was hiking Mt. Marcy in New York. It's the highest point in the whole state! It was a tough hike, and my family was exerting a lot of energy trying to get to the top.

As we continued hiking all day long, my mom and I started to trail behind. We decided to stop for the night at a clearing in the woods for backpackers. We had prepared to stay overnight anyway, and we figured we'd make it to the top of the mountain in the morning.

As evening approached, we got settled in at the site. We had dehydrated food and snacks packed in our backpack. Before going to sleep for the night, we decided to enjoy our Snickers bars!

As us girls got comfy in the tent, my dad hung our food, and anything with a smell, from a branch high up in a tree. He did this so that bears wouldn't come and eat our food.

Early in the morning, we heard a noise outside of the tent that woke us up. We peeked out the window of the tent and realized a bear had climbed the tree and taken our backpack and food down! I couldn't believe it, but my dad actually got out of the tent and tried to chase the bear to get our food back!

Unfortunately, my dad wasn't able to catch the bear, and the bear got away with all of our food that we had left for the day! We knew we'd never make it to the top of the mountain without any food for energy. We decided to turn back and head back down the mountain. Thank goodness we got to enjoy the Snickers bars the night before! The bear surely would have enjoyed those!