Bear attack newspaper article

[tenaya]

I just read the first half of an account of a grizzly bear attack in 2005 in Glacier National Park. It's pretty dramatic. nausica2 should definitely read this as she was wondering last year if bear attacks were possible.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-grizzly29apr29,0,6922904,full.story

Comments

[khek.livejournal.com]

Wow. That was frightening. I can't imagine living through it.

When I was student teaching in college, my advisor went to Yellowstone for February break. She and her husband were camping. I have no idea why, but they had food in their tent; in the middle of the night, a bear lumbered in and dragged her out. She was attacked and bitten while her husband tried to scare off the bear. Some other campers heard, and alerted Park Rangers. They arrived and scared off the bear. (I think they may have killed it, but I'm not positive.)

She spent weeks in the hospital. I only saw her once, a couple weeks before graduation. She showed me some of her scars. They were horrifying. It made me never want to camp in a national park!

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

It's at times like that that you just react and it's pure luck whether you survive or not.

When I was a kid, we camped in Yellowstone. My brother stayed in a tent while the rest of us slept in the van, thinking we were safe. We had groceries in the passenger seat and the bear walked past the tent to lean against the car to look at that bag of chips. He moved on, but I've seen how easily a bear can get into a car. We were actually lucky, and were in more danger than my brother was.

I still like the parks but am very cautious now.