Yer not wrong. What he had worked, and the outcome was about as good as could be hoped for under the circumstances. Gratitude that everyone is still with us and that healing can begin, with hopes that there will be no lasting injuries.@Sibhusky . Maybe I'm wrong, but this thread seems more appropriate for giving to Sib.
@Sibhusky , wow, terrifying! I'm glad that (I gather) your loved ones are mostly okay.
Everyone else, I don't know how Sib feels, but I'd just as soon not see this turned into a guns vs spray thread, which is the direction it's going. Maybe I'm wrong, but this thread seems more appropriate for giving to Sib.
Hadn't posted it, but that's how I learned there are at least SIX back there. (Six more than we'd been aware of.) Need to build more garages for all these vehicles we have so we're not getting surprised as we come home from a movie. I guess the endangered species efforts worked. There's been talk of delisting them. I might have to join the other team. On the other hand this immediate area is the subject of a new 3000 acre conservation easement, so maybe the increased traffic of bodies and bikers will encourage the bears to move on. Hope all these citizens are packing bear spray and not thinking it's Disneyland.@Sibhusky - did you post the follow up article? I didn't see this one until this morning, for some reason
http://flatheadbeacon.com/2016/10/25/haskill-basin-closure-lifted-bear-attack/
Hadn't posted it, but that's how I learned there are at least SIX back there. (Six more than we'd been aware of.) Need to build more garages for all these vehicles we have so we're not getting surprised as we come home from a movie. I guess the endangered species efforts worked. There's been talk of delisting them. I might have to join the other team. On the other hand this immediate area is the subject of a new 3000 acre conservation easement, so maybe the increased traffic of bodies and bikers will encourage the bears to move on. Hope all these citizens are packing bear spray and not thinking it's Disneyland.
There are also rouge black bears
Is that a motion sensor camera? Very cool. Glad to hear your family is okay, insanely scary. I'm curious, did the dogs flee when this all went down? I've always wondered what my dogs reaction would be to something like this (not that I ever want to learn the answer to that).
The dogs were on leashes. This may have been a factor in the bear's decision to take on my husband instead of continuing with my daughter. It also may have been a factor in her inability to reach her bear spray, as she had a leash on each wrist. Neither of them remember a thing about what the dogs were doing. The dogs had sensed the bear before the attack, and they were talking about what had the dogs all alert. But the dogs didn't do their "bear bark" (deeper), they were just sniffing and alert. In truth, my family thought there were hikers or mountain bikes approaching.Is that a motion sensor camera? Very cool. Glad to hear your family is okay, insanely scary. I'm curious, did the dogs flee when this all went down? I've always wondered what my dogs reaction would be to something like this (not that I ever want to learn the answer to that).
This whole thing with the two dogs that had just met happened immediately with no instruction from anyone. It was steak dinner for those two dogs that night.
There has been talk in California of re-introducing Grizzlies!!!
Interesting. When I lived in South Lake Tahoe about 30 years ago we weren't aware of any bears until one day we hiked up to Burnside Lake from Hope Valley. On the way back we realized an adult black bear was about 75 yards away. For a short while it moved when we moved, keeping equidistant.Wow, Vibes to you @Sibhusky & family!
No Grizzlies in Tahoe but lots of black bears. I regularly have them cruising through my yard & the natural balance is way out of whack. 25yrs. ago there where no bears in the Tahoe basin, maybe an occasional sighting in the wilderness but never in town. The bear huggers around here seem to think they are harmless & have become very complacent. Many of them seem to think that a black bear has never attacked a human. I used to be very scared of them & have realized that I need to re-learn that emotion. I was "bluff" charged by one last year, he made one lunge toward me & then took off at a much higher speed than you would think a lumbering bear could go. Luckily, to a bear I look like the badass that I really am. It's just a matter of time till something bad happens.
There has been talk in California of re-introducing Grizzlies!!!
Interesting. When I lived in South Lake Tahoe about 30 years ago we weren't aware of any bears until one day we hiked up to Burnside Lake from Hope Valley. On the way back we realized an adult black bear was about 75 yards away. For a short while it moved when we moved, keeping equidistant.
I remember reading bears were not naturally indigenous to that altitude but were invading Tahoe and Mammoth because of readily available food from humans.