July 28 (UPI) -- A man was hospitalized in Canada's western province of British Columbia following a bear attack over the weekend, officials said.

The man had sustained "significant injuries" and underwent surgery at a hospital in Cranbrook, a city located about 523 miles east of Vancouver, the province's Conservation Officer Service said in a statement Sunday.

According to officials, the man and his wife were riding e-bikes along the Kootenay River near West Creston when, at about 4:30 p.m. PDT Saturday, the wife heard her husband scream and saw a grizzly bear running toward her.

"She used bear spray and then noticed a second grizzly bear attacking her husband. She again used bear spray and both bears ran off," it said.

Wow quite a woman!

E bikes are very quiet, which flies in the face of all advice to make noise to forewarn bears. Mountain bikers get hit regular as clockwork around here.

UDAP and other bear sprays are excellent, with the caveat that use is hazardous when the bear is coming from the same direction as the wind.

It is an excellent alternative to a more reliable defense measure, if death or very serious injury is likely. US national parks and national forests allow local law to be applied with firearm defense.

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US national parks and national forests allow local law to be applied with firearm defense.

The national park service doesn't allow it.

The were forced to accept it by a change in federal law.

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:

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US national parks and national forests allow local law to be applied with firearm defense.

The national park service doesn't allow it.

The were forced to accept it by a change in federal law.

nothing to do with canada and here in our national parks firearms are prohibited except for law enforcement and first nations uses thus the reason you wont see me in any national parks with brown bear/grizzly presence and to each his own but alas bear spray may work but it has been proven first that a bear already sprayed will not run away and second bear sprayed will come back after the surprise and with the quantity of active product we have in canada they are a joke ... we call them bear seasoning here for a reason but bear presence will not stop us to go and sleep in tent just be bear smart as you can or think you can ...

That is 100 percent correct Phil...we are not talking about incidents in the US of A, so what sort of sidearm you should pack is not relevant. Carry any firearm in our National Parks has been taboo for many decades now, unless of course you are "special", like First Nations.

As you know we don't have to go and play in the National Park to see the big bears. At least out in the Crown Land we can carry a firearm to back up the bear seasoning. Besides the National Parks are usually too full of tourists. I go out on the land to see less people, not more.

One can always hope for improvement in ones situation.

Then learn from other successes and failures.

I would take a prison sentence any day compared to the long term results of a bear attack

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https://www.yukon-news.com/new...eter-grizzly-8189158

That is beautiful country up there around Kluane lake use to guide up there. Would trail horses is in from camp at end of lake by silver city over pass then to gladstone lakes.
They were building a lodge on other side of the lake at that time also we would boat materials across the lake from destruction bay. Would imagine things may look a bit different
now.

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Originally posted by medved:
https://www.yukon-news.com/new...eter-grizzly-8189158

That is beautiful country up there around Kluane lake use to guide up there. Would trail horses is in from camp at end of lake by silver city over pass then to gladstone lakes.
They were building a lodge on other side of the lake at that time also we would boat materials across the lake from destruction bay. Would imagine things may look a bit different
now.

it is beautiful country indeed. i do not know about that lodge but it is great and still not hard to be alone and not seeing people and avoiding the park.

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it is beautiful country indeed

Yes it is.

When I was up there late May of 74 we used ice chucks from the lake to keep our food cool.

The Alcan still had 1200 miles of gravel

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Originally posted by sage:

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Originally posted by medved:
https://www.yukon-news.com/new...eter-grizzly-8189158

That is beautiful country up there around Kluane lake use to guide up there. Would trail horses is in from camp at end of lake by silver city over pass then to gladstone lakes.
They were building a lodge on other side of the lake at that time also we would boat materials across the lake from destruction bay. Would imagine things may look a bit different
now.

it is beautiful country indeed. i do not know about that lodge but it is great and still not hard to be alone and not seeing people and avoiding the park.

Ya found it weird didnt see many residents hunting in there for wasnt that hard of an area to get into to hunt sheep compared to stone and bighorn areas in B.C.
One day going up through a basin to get to the backside which usually held sheep, we pop over little rise and theres a tent, then dogs start barking, out pops
a older fellow and younger lady they had come in using pack dogs. I thought that was pretty cool, talked to them for awhile, letting them no where thought rams
might be on other side, we then turned around and went back down and to another valley.

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Originally posted by sage:

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Originally posted by medved:

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Originally posted by sage:

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Originally posted by medved:
https://www.yukon-news.com/new...eter-grizzly-8189158

That is beautiful country up there around Kluane lake use to guide up there. Would trail horses is in from camp at end of lake by silver city over pass then to gladstone lakes.
They were building a lodge on other side of the lake at that time also we would boat materials across the lake from destruction bay. Would imagine things may look a bit different
now.

it is beautiful country indeed. i do not know about that lodge but it is great and still not hard to be alone and not seeing people and avoiding the park.

Ya found it weird didnt see many residents hunting in there for wasnt that hard of an area to get into to hunt sheep compared to stone and bighorn areas in B.C.
One day going up through a basin to get to the backside which usually held sheep, we pop over little rise and theres a tent, then dogs start barking, out pops
a older fellow and younger lady they had come in using pack dogs. I thought that was pretty cool, talked to them for awhile, letting them no where thought rams
might be on other side, we then turned around and went back down and to another valley.

really few residents are hunting sheep and moose and caribou are mostly on draw and for a moose the deeper you go in the wild the harder it is to bring back unless you have horse pack as the atv access has been restriced and boat on the lake well we all know how that lake can be when not quiet ...