A group of four of us (females, mid 30's) hiked up to tuck and robin lakes on Tuesday the 25th. It was a friend's birthday and we were headed out for two overnights to celebrate! We got a late start so decided to stay at tuck for the night. There were a fair amount of people up there but we managed to find a site beyond the groups on the trail up to Robin. Mosquitoes were nasty but the views were beautiful. Around midnight, we were awoken to two men sneaking around our tents and ultimately stealing our food bag from our bear hang. They were using a cell phone backlight to see and spent at least 5 min, maybe more, poking around our campsite. The men dropped the bag after we awoke and began yelling at them. We suspect they were watching/listening to us nearby as their timing was pretty spot on (we were asleep for less than 30 min) and we noticed folks nearby at the edge of the lake while we were getting ready for bed.

Thankfully there was a group of Boy Scouts and leaders who helped search the area and assisted us in reestablishing our camp near their site at 1230am.

We were never able to track down the men and asked at multiple campsites if anyone else had anything odd happen. We never encountered anyone who matched the appearance of these men the next day.

All four of us are very experienced backpackers and have never had anything like this happen in the past. It was really startling to wake up to two men in our campsite stealing from us at midnight, 8 miles from our car. We are fortunate that we heard the P-cord being lowered from the tree and that we were able to get out of the tents in time to stop them. While losing our food wouldn't have been fatal, imagine if we were on a multi night trip and 70 miles from our car or if we were diabetic. It was creepy and weird to say the least. I don't imagine any of us will be back to Tuck Lake in the future. Be careful out there!

*we reported the event to the ranger station and the sheriff.