From the Nov. 2001 issue pgs 46-48. the article is titled "Face to Face with a Grizzly" by A.V. "Slim" Randles.
Looks like a good piece on griz attacks, but the best quote is from the paragraph:
"One visitor to Alaska fell prey to Hollywood's version of grizzly bears. He was visiting southeast Alaska and set out with his back pack on a several-day hike through the mountains. Locals offered to lend him a rifle, but he just shook his pony tail and said that he had watched enough "Grizzly Adams" on television back home in San Francisco to know if you had the right karma and sent out the proper vibes nature worked with you, not against you. About a week later, searchers found his camera and his boots. The last three frames on the camera's film were of a grizzly sow and her two cubs. And the boots still had feet in them".
------------------ When in doubt, do a nuclear strike.
Posts: 1723 | Location: wyo | Registered: 03 March 2001
Nine out of ten Grizzlies poled say Karma tastes just like chicken! Dang there are some stupid people out there. I wonder if there is any truth to this account. X-Ring AKA Scooter
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I've never heard of this writer before, however, that was just one of several griz stories that made up the article. He seemed to know his stuff about most them.
as to nature, she kills the old, the weak and stupid...just not in great enough numbers.
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Posts: 1723 | Location: wyo | Registered: 03 March 2001
Posts: 8351 | Location: Jennings Louisiana, Arkansas by way of Alabama by way of South Carloina by way of County Antrim Irland by way of Lanarkshire Scotland. | Registered: 02 November 2001
Talk about BAD Karma...... Back in the early 80's a young couple were killed by a grizzly in Glacier Park, MT. The male victim had a brother who lived in Helena just a few blocks from where I resided. Met him one day and offered my condolences regarding the loss of his Brother. We got talking and he mentioned that several years before, while working as a Park Ranger in Glacier, he TOO had been mauled but had sustained only minor injuries! I don't think there has been another case of family members attacked by bears on seperate occasions.
I saw the photos on the investigation on this guys brothers death. Really makes you think when you are out in big bear country! We are kind of like those convenience store hot dogs under the heat lamps. All they have to do is want us and unless your armed, plus have a few seconds to get your act together, your lunch. Chilling stuff.
Frank N.
Posts: 950 | Location: Cascade, Montana USA | Registered: 11 June 2000
Never mind the grizzlies....a female olympic biathlon star was jogging a trail somewhere in Quebec last summer and a small black bear ate her for lunch. Actually, there are far more incidents with blacks than there has ever been with grizzlies.
