Love it! On a serious note, a good friend of mine was at GLacier Natl Park and had 2 black bear cubs AND their mother cross about 60 yds the trail in front of them. They didn't seem to notice or care about the humans and moved along without incident. If that were an encounter at 10yds, who knows what would have happened. Glacier is great because they allow you to legally carry in the park -- bring enough gun.
I pissed my pants.
Love it! On a serious note, a good friend of mine was at GLacier Natl Park and had 2 black bear cubs AND their mother cross about 60 yds the trail in front of them. They didn't seem to notice or care about the humans and moved along without incident. If that were an encounter at 10yds, who knows what would have happened. Glacier is great because they allow you to legally carry in the park -- bring enough gun.
The bear likely smelled them 20 minutes before the encounter....
My wife and I spent a week there last year. It is an absolutely wonderful place, to which we will be returning. I carried a 44mag every time we were out on the trail, and my wife who generally doesn't like to be near guns verified that I had 'the big gun' every time we got out of the truck, and that it was within reach when we went to bed at night.
The only bear we saw was a black cub in the woods to the side of the road as we were driving that day, nothing on the trail.
I'm very glad I didn't need the gun, 44mag would only be marginal against a grizzly, and there would be a lot of paperwork, but I am certainly glad I carried it, just in case.
Was in Yukon near the Alaska border on my Goldwing when Mr Griz walked up out of the ditch about 25 yards in front of me and I stopped. First minute I was wondering how the heck I was going to turn my big ol bike around on that gravel before I became an ours'devour. I was in Canada, so I had no peashooter with me. I guess he must have already ate breakfast that morning, as I am still here to share it with you. I would have offered him some nail clippers, but something told me he would not be interested. Good thing I brought some extra underwear.
if not longer, what was the old native American sayiing? A hawk could see a single snowflake fall, a deer could hear it fall and a bear could smell it.