The final conclusion to this situation is go back in there, you will find bears. I went back in 4 days after the miss and came out with a gorgeous chocolate bear, and spotted 2 others, complety content after the shot was taken.
I recently hiked into a remote drainage and glassed up a couple of bears. Got into range of one of them and missed. That bear ran uphill into a big chunk of forest and the other bear ran downhill and into the other side of the drainage where there was thick forest there. My question is by...