HOT SPRINGS AND GRIZZLIES AND GUNS, OH MY! (aka: recipe 68: camp stove chili good enough for a bear)

MONTANA = best state ever.  I mean, where else can you find this? http://www.chicohotsprings.com/...
And these?

black bear in the wild, Glacier National Park

grizzly bear in the wild, Glacier National Park (and yes, we took these bear pictures)

And these?

this is intense!

this is ridiculous! (and yes, those are cowboy boots)

So on the second night of my third trip to Montana, the plan was to camp at Glacier.  All over the place, there were terrifying warnings like these:

Nevertheless, we thought that cooking up a delicious chili on the camp stove would be a good idea.  This recipe is a Tiffany invention and it was absolutely delicious!  During the s'mores portion of the evening, which followed the chili portion of the evening, we heard a loud growl.  It was undoubtedly a bear and it undoubtedly caused me to sprint away from the scene, jump in the car, sleep there, and not emerge until the next morning.  Note: Tristan insists that there was no such bear.  He acknowledges hearing the growling but insists that it was the heavyset man in the RV across the way snoring.  But this is my blog, not Tristan's.  And it was a bear and it smelled the delicious chili and it paid a visit.

BEAR-WORTHY CAMP STOVE CHILI (serves two humans for one dinner and one lunch, and one bear)
Ingredients:
-half of an onion, sliced
-red, yellow, and orange peppers, sliced
-a jalapeno, sliced
-butter
-chopped plum tomatoes
-beer, preferably this one, called Moose Drool:

-ground beef
-chili beans, preferably ones like these, which may or may not only exist in Montana:

quite the rustic scene, this was!

-cheese
-sour cream
-lime wedges

Instructions:
1) melt the butter in a pot and saute the onion and peppers until they start to look a little charred

2) remove the onion and pepper mixture and brown the beef (draining the fat) in the same pot
3) add the tomatoes and the beer (oh, about a half bottle or so) to the beef and cook until it thickens
4) add the beans and continue cooking until it starts to look really good
5) add the onion and pepper mixture back in and cook for about as long as it takes to attract a bear

6) top with some squeezed lime, sour cream, and cheese