Bear Encounter
“My best friend and I were heading down a mountain from scouting bighorn sheep a little before opening day for hunting season. It was already pretty close to a 20km day of hiking through the mountains. We were roughly a couple of kilometers from the truck, hiking along the bank of a dried riverbed, when his dog stops dead in his tracks. We thought he heard a squirrel or something like normal, so we keep walking …
… In an absolute flash, a bear gets up about 25 feet from us and BOLTS off into the bush so fast that he was probably over 100 feet away before I would have even been able to get the bear spray out of the holster on my belt. I just wanna say this: if you and a bear startle each other, and he decides to attack, you are 100% f****d. I have never seen something so big move so fast in my life.”