I lived in Alaska many years, and when bear tracks or the bear is seen after October, before spring, be assured that's a bear with an injury, or other physical problem, under-nourished from the summer, hungry and dangerous and a dying and despirate bear.

Here's an example:

A Yukon trapper shot an attacking grizzly bear — then discovered it had probably already killed his family

https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.b26b7799f297