They Are Coming For Us!

[eddiememphis]

Pretty sure we are all gonna end up in a scary, scary bear's tummy.

Wyoming- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...de-yellowstone

Steamboat- https://kdvr.com/news/local/man-seri...-springs-home/

Canada- https://www.outdoorlife.com/hunting/...rizzly-attack/

Durango- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/u...-colorado.html

[WETWRKS]

The Durango incident...they are now thinking that she was killed by a mountain lion and then the bear came along and found her and ate her.

[Hummer]

While the odds of a bear attack are slim even for those who spend a lot of time in bear country, it's good to be "bear aware". The last time we saw bear tracks in the snow by our house was May 15. We have had more problems with bears over the past several years because some numbskull had been baiting them--for several years--on a property 120 yards from us. A non resident, he was killing bears and probably deer over bait. Several bears were killed including tagged bears euthanized by CPW because of the baiting scheme.

To protect the house I put up an electric fence around the yard. We keep a 12 gauge loaded with rubber buckshot, rubber ball and magnum slugs in the kitchen.

Black bears are inclined to avoid people but you never know how they will behave when with cubs or when surprised. Just expect that Yogi will keep trying to snag that pic-a-nic basket.

Grizzly and coastal brown bears (Ursus horribilis) are not to be trifled with. I've encountered them a few dozen times and have been charged twice by coastal Alaskan brown bears. They will humble you.

I made a 101 mile canoe fishing trip in Katmai Alaska, through a series of lakes and rivers. Here's an immature brown bear that charged us when we were fishing nearby. (How fast can you back paddle?) It was believed that this bear consumed two kayakers a few days before. At the end of the journey I happened to have dinner with the US Secretary of Interior, James Watt. I told him of finding bloody clothing near our camp in Expedition Bay at Lake Naknek by the Savonoski River. I understand the NPS rangers put that bear down.


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[Irving]

Episode 4 of the Bear Grease podcast has a fantastic first hand account of a fatal bear attack in the 1800's in the South. Worth a listen.

[JohnnyDrama]

The last bear I came across while hiking ran off when my girlfriend screamed.

[Hummer]

Pretty sure we are all gonna end up in a scary, scary bear's tummy....

As the old saying goes, either you eat the bear or the bear eats you.

Pertinent in so many scenarios.

[TEAMRICO]

The last bear I came across while hiking ran off when my girlfriend screamed.

The girlfriends scream? Hmmmmm not buying it.��

[exxonv]

The girlfriends scream? Hmmmmm not buying it.��

LOL

[TRnCO]

I've never feared "bears" in general. Heck even two years ago when my best bud and I did a combo brown bear/moose/caribou float trip in AK we slept in two man tents and didn't keep a gun at our side. No shortage of brown bears around as we saw as many as 10 bears in a day. Although I do believe that the large number of fish in the streams was keeping them fat and sassy, which probably kept them from looking at us as a food source.

[UncleDave]

In the words of the great Augustus McCray “Hell, we’ll probably all be bear crap in a week anyhow!”