Note their proximity.

I would have definitely needed a drink and change of underwear on that one.
Some people have bigger and more of something than me.

Good one. I have always liked this one.

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I've chased a few bears out of camp, without a gun.... but not Grizz.

Never had one in camp. Chased one out of the garden a couple years back. Maybe 15 years ago, had one with cubs cross my path while out brookie fishing. That one I let look at me, sniff a bunch and wander off on it's own. Didn't think being aggressive was the right course of action with the cubs. Both were black bears.

Both of those Grizz videos, can't say I would have been as calm as the two gents in the video.

I know I can't do it and I wouldn't do it, but damn it, there's a part of me that would want to cuddle a bear that came so close. They're so fluffy I can't stand it!*



*Can anyone name the movie where I pinched this line?

Despicable Me

Reverant.
Bahaha.

It is a young curious bear. It is far different situation if the bear was an adult preditor.

That's what I was thinking. Being young might make them more unpredictable but stopping an adult with a pistol at that range could mean game over.

Speckled: "Despicable Me"

YES! You win one speck stream with five waterfalls and six rapids! Where should I send it?

missmolly: "

Speckled: "Despicable Me"

YES! You win one speck stream with five waterfalls and six rapids! Where should I send it?"

You hit the jackpot!!!

I LOVE Despicable Me/Minion movies.

smoke: "It is a young curious bear. It is far different situation if the bear was an adult preditor. "

It was always the adolescent brown bears that worried me the most when I lived in Alaska because they were less predictable and tended to be feeling their oats, not unlike human teenagers sometimes. When the brown bears are congregating on salmon streams in the summer their focus is on eating as many salmon as they can to prepare for winter. I have literally seen some with bellies that drag on the ground from gorging on so many fish. As long as you give them space they're just focused on eating fish and people do not fall on the screen as food. But it is a little nerve-racking when they get close to you on a river.

airmorse: "Good one. I have always liked this one.

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Good thing the guy was down wind.