[Fightin Whitey]

Mark, don’t you think he could have stopped earlier, when the moose first comes into sight, and perhaps the moose would have wandered on?

Instead it seemed to me he basically challenged and spooked the young bull.

Just my two cents. I would have done almost anything, short of coming to harm, to let the beast live. But it’s hard to tell on a short vid.

[marktwain]

“Mark, don’t you think he could have stopped earlier, when the moose first comes into sight, and perhaps the moose would have wandered on?”

From the video, it appears that he stopped as soon as he saw the moose, and made lots of noise to try to get the moose to move off the track, or just keep going. The moose was not having any of it, and decided to attack. The moose had lots of options of simply moving along or of moving to the side. The moose probably was operating on a triggered “predator” response and saw the snowmobiler as a threat. With a following machine and the narrow track, I think the snowmobiler did everything they could to not to have to shoot the moose.

They almost got killed trying to save the moose, and people here are critical because they did not do more, as I see it.

[RobinOfKingston]

Mark, don’t you think he could have stopped earlier, when the moose first comes into sight, and perhaps the moose would have wandered on?

The moose wanted the same thing the snowmobilers needed. To be in the packed trail. It makes travel easier for moose and machine.

Unfortunately, the moose is not accustomed to giving way in the forest.