Video: Mountain Biker Recalls Fighting off Grizzly Bear with Pocket Knife - Pinkbike
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One Of My Mountain Biking Nightmares
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"Dowler says the sound he remembers most of all was bones grinding on teeth."
That's some proper victim blaming, what was he thinking messing up that poor bear's dental health with his bones.
"... it was just happenstance that one of the officers actually picked up on the bear’s odour from behind us and alerted the second officer who then destroyed the bear.”
They used either dynamite or a rocket launcher, don't nobody tell me any different.
That's some proper victim blaming, what was he thinking messing up that poor bear's dental health with his bones.
"... it was just happenstance that one of the officers actually picked up on the bear’s odour from behind us and alerted the second officer who then destroyed the bear.”
They used either dynamite or a rocket launcher, don't nobody tell me any different.
So if that's one of your mountain biking nightmares, what would happen if you were trying to coast on your road bike but for some reason it was slower than your mountain bike AND you were getting chased by a grizzly?
Funny enough, I was road riding up to Togwotee Pass yesterday and saw a Momma Griz and Cub that have been frequenting the area...my wife wanted me to bring bear spray.
(low altitude for you Colorado Monkeys)
(low altitude for you Colorado Monkeys)
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I've seen 4 bears in 10 years out here. I'm much more worried about a cat, but considering how many 1/2 deer we pass on trails they seem to be well fed.
Fortunately we do not have Grizzly Bears in NC. However the Black Bears are more or less professional snack thieves.
They should be there, along with wolves and Mountain Lions. Would make the AT a little more 'sporty'.
Lots of cute black bears around here, and I've seen lots of them on rides and runs. I've had them walk out of the woods just a few feet in front of me. Freaky but cool. Fortunately the black bears really DGAF about me and just go about their business. No angry grizzlies around here.
One of the guys I ride with had a face to face with a cougar two nights ago. FTS
I'm going to die from something dumb like cancer not cool like fighting a bear.
I'll take my chances with a bear any day of the week over a mountain lion.
Yeah, black bears are pretty common here. Still dangerous, but chances are good that an encounter won't do much more than raise your heart rate. Cougars on the other hand...I think I might actually wet myself.
It seems like there are more cougar sightings (game-cam and in person) every year. Not sure if there is a population increase of cougars, more people riding our trails or just more communication amongst us...?
Well, all that said, I am gonna be totally spooked during today's late afteroon til dusk SOLO trail maintenance session...
It seems like there are more cougar sightings (game-cam and in person) every year. Not sure if there is a population increase of cougars, more people riding our trails or just more communication amongst us...?
Well, all that said, I am gonna be totally spooked during today's late afteroon til dusk SOLO trail maintenance session...
Cats don't like confrontation...Grizzlies enjoy it.I'll take my chances with a bear any day of the week over a mountain lion.
Sure, but at least you'll see the bear coming. Not an ambush from behind that you don't see coming like a god damned cat.
Unless, of course, you crash into the bear, like the guy that died in Montana.
A cat would likely already have left.
(I say this as someone who has been 'chased' by a mountain lion while riding)
A cat would likely already have left.
(I say this as someone who has been 'chased' by a mountain lion while riding)
Tell us about the chase. The guy who had the run-in with the mtn Lion the other day said that cat bolted immediately.
This whole cat thing is interesting to me. I have twice now seen pictures of myself and mtn lions in the same exact spots (at different times) from a buddies game-cams. So, I know they are out with us pretty much all the time. I've seen bobcats twice now and a cougar from afar (I think).
Luckily for me the only part of bears that I ever see is their asses as they scoot on down / off the trail. Black bears have very jiggly asses. Really.
Well, the irony is that I never even saw it. I was the lead rider in a fast group, and stopped to hike over a blowdown. My friends, who had been hollering on the downhill (I assumed just out of stoke) came up to me with their eyes as big as pies, stammering "Mt. Lion...On your wheel!"
I guess it was also running down the trail (path of least resistance) to get away from the group. I just happened to be in it's way for a 10th of a mile.
That's why I put 'chased' in parenthesis, pretty sure it just wanted to get out of there.
EDIT: I have seen two other Mt. Lions while riding here, both times they bolted as soon as they saw/heard/smelled me.
I guess it was also running down the trail (path of least resistance) to get away from the group. I just happened to be in it's way for a 10th of a mile.
That's why I put 'chased' in parenthesis, pretty sure it just wanted to get out of there.
EDIT: I have seen two other Mt. Lions while riding here, both times they bolted as soon as they saw/heard/smelled me.
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I was in a lean-to in VT. On the AT when I was around 16, a bear crawled over us in our sleeping bags checking things out. We were told to play dead.
It worked, I guess.
It worked, I guess.
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Timely...
www.foxnews.com
Canadian hiker says she used Metallica song to scare off cougar
A Vancouver woman thanked the legendary heavy metal band Metallica for saving her life after she used their song "Don't Tread on Me" to scare off a cougar in Canada on July 23.
www.foxnews.com
So 72 mile mtb race today. 2 miles from the end of the trail (about 9 miles to go total) I come around the corner and there's a huge brown bear walking/jogging down the trail about 50-100' in front of me. I instinctively roar at the top of my lungs to not give the bear time to size me up, just to think "wow, this human thing is angry and threatening". Luckily it works this time and it scurries off the trail, but I can't tell how far with the undergrowth. I wait a few moments and "go for it". I'm going to have nightmares about that bear.
I have witnessed this on several occasions at the Marcy Dam camp area in the High Peaks region of the Adirondacks. As the backpackers dropped their stuff to unpack, the bears wander up to them, and just start rummaging through the packs. they are able to find and pull out the food bags. they are discerning enough to separate the sweets from the salty. A park warden once told me he saw a bear grab a box of wine, sit of the edge of a lean-to, bit off a corner and chugged the whole box. it wandered away plastered.
My scariest bear moment was flying down a dh section of trail in the Chilcotins and coming around a corner and seeing what I thought was a horse in front of me. then it turned it's head and I realized it was a bear. it was fricken huge. I've never climbed so fast in my life. But I think it was as startled as I was and had disappeared when we went back through there with the rest of our group (hollering "hey bear" the whole way).
Rode through wolf feces the other day in the Snowy's. Good times!
I want to know why the cyclist had a ski pole?
You said that just for -SS-, don't lie.
yeah Im calling fake news.
Well, yeah, that’s what I meant
What were talking about mannnnnnn?