Glacier NP Redrock Falls trail & gun (#0272)

Redrock Falls trail, with Redrock lake in the distance. I was violating a very basic rule of hiking here -- hiking alone on a trail in bear country where bears had been sited just that afternoon. I wasn't too worried about it since there were many other hikers on the trail, though they were far enough apart that I was concerned at times. It was also at about this point that I met a man hiking with his son and wearing his handgun. We chatted for a few minutes about the trail and the bears, and he mentioned that he wasn't concerned since he was carrying his gun. I didn't tell him that the park says to never try to defend yourself from a bear with a handgun, that it will just make matters worse. (Was I going to point out to a man wearing a gun that using the gun could put him in danger? No.)