Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2023 14:46:20 GMT
I only remember one bear encounter in which I got wounded. I was hiking up in Glacier National Park about 20 years ago. It was up in the Copperstain area. Now the idea is to stay on the trails, do that and it ought to go o.k.
You see bears don't like people and tend to stay away from the hiking trails. But of course me being me, I felt the need to break the rules, and went off the trail.
I found myself in a thick patch of birch trees and noticed a natural clearing, and decided that this would be a fine place for me to take my backpack off and have lunch. I didn't even take 10 steps and there she was not even 150 feet away. I can tell the difference between a male grizzly and a female, because the males have these thick sideburns on the side of their heads and the sows don't.
As sows go she was bigger than most, I'm guessing about 400 pounds or so. She had her head down and was munching on dandilion flowers. I freaked out and ran like a bastard into the birch trees, and in my panic I tripped over a tree root. I fell and on the way down hit my head on a branch. There I was on the forest floor blood running down my face from my scalp cut.
I looked out towards the clearing to see what the grizzly was doing. She looked up at me as if to say, "What's your problem?" I get back on the trail and soon after ran into an off duty nurse from Alberta, who had her medical kit with her in her backpack. She gave me a big lecture about the dangers of going off trail, as she was bandaging up my head. She was quite pretty, blond, blue eyes and built, but I was in no position to be hitting on her or anybody at that moment. lol
You see bears don't like people and tend to stay away from the hiking trails. But of course me being me, I felt the need to break the rules, and went off the trail.
I found myself in a thick patch of birch trees and noticed a natural clearing, and decided that this would be a fine place for me to take my backpack off and have lunch. I didn't even take 10 steps and there she was not even 150 feet away. I can tell the difference between a male grizzly and a female, because the males have these thick sideburns on the side of their heads and the sows don't.
As sows go she was bigger than most, I'm guessing about 400 pounds or so. She had her head down and was munching on dandilion flowers. I freaked out and ran like a bastard into the birch trees, and in my panic I tripped over a tree root. I fell and on the way down hit my head on a branch. There I was on the forest floor blood running down my face from my scalp cut.
I looked out towards the clearing to see what the grizzly was doing. She looked up at me as if to say, "What's your problem?" I get back on the trail and soon after ran into an off duty nurse from Alberta, who had her medical kit with her in her backpack. She gave me a big lecture about the dangers of going off trail, as she was bandaging up my head. She was quite pretty, blond, blue eyes and built, but I was in no position to be hitting on her or anybody at that moment. lol