The "Bend Bulletin" printed the following story on August 20, 1928:
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"The trail up Bachelor Peak is becoming entirely too popular, in the opinion of Ferdinand Strauss, forest service lookout. Strauss sent out a frantic S.O.S. last night over the telephone when a black bear started the long climb to the summit and reached a point well up in the snowfields before deciding that the prospects for a meal at the top weren't good enough to justify the climb.
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Strauss, who was unarmed, put in several phone calls while the bear was apparently determined to reach the lookout station. Strauss called for volunteers, well armed, to argue with the bear and it was only after bruin gave up the trip that peace settled down over the phone line system of the Deschutes National Forest. Leslie Colvill reported this morning.
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Strauss described the bear as "a big, black one" and was very earnest in his pleas for aid, Colvill said. Assurances that the black bear is friendly by nature and inclined to be playful rather than hostile had little effect until the animal had headed back down the slope.
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Today Strauss is inclined to view the incident less gravely, although he is still convinced that he should be supplied with an armament."
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