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Always - always keep food away from you in bear country. I usually store it hanging in a tree at least 100 meters away.
Poor kid....!!!
You can usually spook off a Montana black bear with a few loud noises...VERY unusual....???
Terrifying story.
I wonder if the boy had food in the tent. It is important to keep all food out of the tent when camping in bear country. This includes anything (toothpaste, mouthwash,.. etc) that may have a scent to attract the bear.
Identifying Bears:
If you see a Bear... climb a tree.
If the bear climbs up the tree and kills you... it’s a Black Bear.
If it knocks the tree down and kills you... it’s a Grizzly Bear.
Ghastly. Prayers for his family.
Wondering - black bear? Are bears hunted there?
A bear tried to pull a Girl Scout out of her tent in PA a couple weeks ago - she wriggled free of the sleeping bag and it wasn’t really serious about eating her. The Scouts had been careful with food and toiletries, taking the proper precautions. But bears aren’t much hunted in the north-east and don’t have much fear of humans.
Mrs VS
Shame. But that is nature. Prayers to the family.
There can be no covenant between lions and men
Homer, Iliad XXII
I’ll never understand camping in a tent. Uncomfortable, dangerous and SO MUCH WORK! Sleep out in the back of your house if you want to see stars.
This is completely unusual in Utah. The campground is not far from Robert Redford’s Sundance ski resort.
Amazing and scarey!
Prayers for that poor family. I can’t imagine just enjoying a family outing and it turning into this.
There was a fatal bear attack not too far from here last year. A poor little six year old girl was killed and her mother and little brother injured.
Bears are just sweet little cuddly fuzzballs that only want a few snacks. Didn’t you see the movie Open Season??? Its the hunters that are bad not the cute fuzzy bears.
poor kid.
Poor child...What an awful way to go.
So sad. Prayers for this child and his family.
My initial though at the headline was that the step-dad should have been packing, but it actually sounds like it wouldn’t have made any difference. :(
I never camp without my .44 magnum loaded with bear shot for just this reason.
Remember: Man (Freeper kanawa) stabs bear to death
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1670661/posts
I know this might tick some people off, but...
It seems to me that most anyone that accidentally encounters a bear, wolf, or mountain lion wishes they didn’t have the experience. I know I have no desire to see them - and I’ve been close to and seen bears and cougars in the wild. Had one lion stalking me. No fun at all.
I am in favor of eradication except for in a few designated places (large enough for the animal’s survival) where people that want to find the predators can. Shoot any animals that get out.
Then we wouldn’t have to worry about our kids getting too far down the trail, or out in the backyard, or whatever. No worrying about predators while hunting/hiking around. We don’t let mean dogs roam the streets. Why let worse than them roam anywhere else? That goes for tigers, etc in other countries - why should parents there have to worry just so the westerners can be content knowing there are still tigers around.
Our grandparents almost had these things extinct - most of us agree they were smarter than we (collectively) are now about such things.
Why am I not buying this story??? Didn’t they hear the bear RIPPING the tent?? Unless it was raining or thundering or they had their TV on so loud they couldn’t hear a BEAR RIPPING a TENT......
I wonder if he had an food in his tent that attracted the bear to the tent.