[Ursus arctos horribilis]

"BTW - I like your screen name. They are facinating creatures. I met one once."

Not up close and personal I hope?

The worst griz I ever saw are the small barren ground grizzlies of interior Alaska, seems they all operated with firecracker fuse. I got complacent being around the coastal grizzles, (brown bear) which are a bit (with emphasis on bit) more layed back. The barren ground ones appeared to be in a perpetual urinated state of mind.

[Bear_Slayer]

Not up close and personal I hope?

No. Though I wished I had seen him closer w/o the possibility of limbs torn from my body.

I was driving backroads near the Glacier National Park.

I came around a corner and he was about 200 yards off sitting in the road. I assumed he would run off into the brush, so I kept driving. I didn't drive to much farther before he stood up and charged me. He cleared half the distance in seconds. I was able to turn around and drive off before he cleared the remaining distance.

It was exciting.