>>2827599
I also took pictures of bears in Romania but safely from inside my car
I'll admit that I was pretty fucking paranoid during my first hikes in the Carpathians though but it turned out the scarriest things were actually the massive unsupervised sheperd's dogs

>>2827612
Just spend some time on satellite maps of Europe and you will see forests and mountains, not everywhere is the Netherlands
Similarly, not everywhere in the USA is Montana you also have massive urban areas and entire states dedicated to intensive agriculture