Posted on 05/13/2016 9:36:39 AM PDT by w1n1
Drew Hamilton was filming bears in Alaska's McNeil River when he got a companion. A brown bear sits next to him while taking in the sites of where all bears were gathering to catch salmon. See the video here. Anybody have bears come this close?
Bear acts like it just woke up. Yawning. Looking around.
I think the bear was just as curious, as to what you were looking at.
But, being a bear, it did check you out to see what your awareness ‘let you see’, and then walked off.
I ran into a baby bear this past summer when it all of a sudden popped in front of me when I was biking through a lumber trail once.... fortunately, I stayed on my bike. Talk about a serious case of pedal to the metal after contact as I didn’t know how close the mom was.
LOL. Curious about how good he might taste.
How cute. If you want to lose an arm you should pet one of those bears.
Go backpacking in Yosemite.
Better have your food up in a tree once the sun sets.
A bear licked my brothers face once while he slept, yikes!
Last year we started having a bear climb the big fir tree in front of our house at night. It didn’t make a lot of noise, but it kept breaking limbs off the tree. Some of them were several inches in diameter. In the morning I would find a bunch of big branches in the yard and bear droppings at the base of the tree. I put up a fence and game camera. The deer still just jump right over the fence but the bear stopped visiting after I put it up. We live in town, but we have a green area directly behind us and are not far from a much larger wooded area.
A couple years ago they had to relocate a bear that got lost and walked right through downtown during the middle of the day.
Meals on wheels in bear country.
We get bears on the ranch once in a while and for the most part they just check things out and then leave. But if I see one I still get out my rifle and keep it close just in case.
“How’s fishin’?”
Sit down, take a load off yer paws...
Does anyone ever carry apples to toss to the bears as distractions?
Or maybe to toss to sasquatches?
Many years ago, I was clearing trail for the US Forest Service up on the CC Divide. I ran into a big bunch of huckleberries blocking the trail. I came up the next day with a brush saw to clear out the bushes.
The trail had to be “wide enough so two mules with packs could get by each other” on the trail.
I was way in front of my co-worker when I got to the huckleberries. I put the brush saw down and put on my cutting chaps. I reached down and gabbed the saw by the handle and pulled the starting cord.
The huckleberries exploded!
It was a bear.
I had received some excellent training from the Forest Service on what to do if you encounter a bear. I remembered none of it. I ran screaming back down the trail like a little girl.
The bear ran screaming up the trail like a little girl bear.
I don’t know if it was a grizzly or a black bear. You can tell by how big the poop is. Well, this one had sprayed everywhere so it was impossible to tell. He didn’t like chainsaws.
Now, when I go out in the woods, I make chainsaw noises.
“Rrrrrrrrr.....Rrrrrrrrr.....Rrrrrrrrrr.”
The Bears don’t attack because they’re laughing so hard.
That happened in our town once. Except that it took a slight detour and went shopping first at the downtown Penny's.
Alaska Ping!
I did come face to face with a young Black bear while walking on a trail. We came face to face at the top of an incline so to speak. He just turned around and took off. However that was nothing like in the story.
One other time I as sitting still on the side of a dry wash in the desert and a burrowing owl flew down and landed right beside me. I did not move and just watched until he decide to go after a few minutes.
I have been to Katmai National Park in Alaska. Went in by float plane from Homer.
Some of the world’s largest brown bears live there. You can get up to 25 years of them (then it becomes illegal). They will leave you alone as long as you don’t bother them or have a fish smell on you. The guide will tell you not to bring tuna sandwiches.
BIL and I were hunting elk in NF land in Wyo. (Gibbs Creek) and spooked a blackie taking a dump. They do not scare me, but browns and moose cows do.
A few years ago there was a guy that liked to video be9arz up close until one ate him.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article25880893.html
I don’t think this wasn’t the bear we had making occasional visits to our home, but they do get adventurous at times. At least our bears usually stay out of Penny’s... I think that they prefer Sears.
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