Grizzle Bear Encounter by "Griz Whispers": This is probably the most intense video of a grizzle bear encounter I have ever seen--excluding a charge. This video will get your attention:...

Barn Owl

This is probably the most intense video of a grizzle bear encounter I have ever seen--excluding a charge.
This video will get your attention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iinv_5e_QGg Hope the couple realizes how fortunate they are to be alive.

Country Boy Loc: Beckley, WV

I would hope they were holding more than just a camera - but I doubt it!

dancers Loc: melbourne.victoria, australia

the more I hear humans the more I love bears.

bellgamin Loc: Ewa Beach, Hawaii

The bear had more sense than they did.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Barn Owl wrote:

This is probably the most intense video of a grizzle bear encounter I have ever seen--excluding a charge.
This video will get your attention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iinv_5e_QGg Hope the couple realizes how fortunate they are to be alive.

Besides piss poor I/Q, the couple is really too stupid to to live, The main problem is had the bear attacked it would have been Put Down.

Fstop12 Loc: Kentucky

Barn Owl wrote:

This is probably the most intense video of a grizzle bear encounter I have ever seen--excluding a charge.
This video will get your attention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iinv_5e_QGg Hope the couple realizes how fortunate they are to be alive.

As someone that is not experienced dealing with bears, what should these people had done differently. I mean if you are out walking on a trail and a bear like this approaches what should one do to ensure your safety as well as the bear?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

People are stupid.

phlash46 Loc: Westchester County, New York

Dumb de dumb dumb...

berchman Loc: South Central PA

Barn Owl wrote:

This is probably the most intense video of a grizzle bear encounter I have ever seen--excluding a charge.
This video will get your attention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iinv_5e_QGg Hope the couple realizes how fortunate they are to be alive.

I was close to having to change my underwear.

scatman Loc: Waterbury, CT

Assuming that the couple were just out for a hike, and not just getting out of the car in an animal preserve to "get better photos", they did absolutely nothing wrong. They behaved exactly as advised. And, yes, I have personally had several bear encounters (including a couple with mama and cub), yet I'm still here.

Barn Owl

All the comments were appreciated. If I had been in a similar situation in outback Alaska, I would have had both people packing canisters of bear spray and if legal, a large pistol to fire a warning shot into the air. Manglesphoto makes an important point about what would have probably happened to the bear had it attacked the people. Benchman has a good reminder for packing spare underwear.

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

Paraphrasing Ed Abbey: If people continue to invade the bear's territory, we have to accept that the bears will harvest an occasional tourist. Those two seem logical candidates and it would cause no damage to the gene pool.

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

Barn Owl wrote:

This is probably the most intense video of a grizzle bear encounter I have ever seen--excluding a charge.
This video will get your attention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iinv_5e_QGg Hope the couple realizes how fortunate they are to be alive.

This is NOT an aggressive Grizzly (believe me when I say you would know an aggressive Grizzly!). It is simply a curious bear wondering what the videographer is...

There was also no mention of the videographer's location or hide. Quite possible it was shot from the safety of a vehicle.

bwa

bellgamin Loc: Ewa Beach, Hawaii

Curmudgeon wrote:

... ... we have to accept that the bears will harvest an occasional tourist. Those two seem logical candidates and it would cause no damage to the gene pool.

Too true -- and hilarious!!!

charlieTDC

This video has been making the rounds for over a decade. They are very experienced Alaskan locals who are mildly well known for doing and writing about months long backcountry trips. They did have bear spray ready to go. The bear is much too far away from them to use spray and is just investigating them, it may never have seen people before given the location.

People calling them "dummies" are incorrect, they are doing EVERYTHING correctly here.

Barn Owl wrote:

All the comments were appreciated. If I had been in a similar situation in outback Alaska, I would have had both people packing canisters of bear spray and if legal, a large pistol to fire a warning shot into the air. Manglesphoto makes an important point about what would have probably happened to the bear had it attacked the people. Benchman has a good reminder for packing spare underwear.

Bears don't understand warning shots. They generally ignore gunfire. Save your ammo.