Hmmm smell will ruin a stalk or spotting...you can't fool a bears nose better than a blood hound...
some noises are tolerated..there is lots of noise in the woods..
Movement will also bust you..sitting still in camo has allowed me to get really close to incoming bears..
Use a tree or brush behind you to break up your sillouet,
grass grows first in cut blocks, along remote Rd, fields..cut blocks ..the residual tree stumps act as a heat sink...soak up sun and radiate heat into the evening...results snow opening..grass grows around those vertices stumps..grass is good.
Any place the sun can hit the ground will melt the snow..grow grass...attract bears...
Meandering creeks in the open the extra moisture attracts grass growth..bear heaven.
The more remote..the less human interference. ..the better..now add grass...you have a bear spot..the bigger the opening the better but even better is down a old logging road...the small logging landings..golden.
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Cheers
Srupp

Skunk cabbage and the other is fiddle heads ..both are used early in spring by bears to remove fecal plugs.