On Wednesday, June 24, a woman who was out walking her dog in Alberta’s Kananaskis Country had an encounter with an aggressive grizzly bear.
Jelmer de Blois, a guide with Wilderness Escape Adventures, which provides guided camping and hiking trips in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, said the woman was out for a morning walk with her coffee and her dog, when suddenly the grizzly bear appeared a short distance away on the gravel highway they were walking on.
Video shot by de Blois shows the animal walking toward them, then quickening its pace, appearing to come within just a few feet of the woman and her dog. She yelled such things as “stop, enough, no, hey, stop it, go away, bad,” in an attempt to scare the animal away.
The bear circled the woman and her dog several times, stopping on occasion to rear up on its hind legs in the face-to-face encounter.
As the woman continued to yell at the bear, it suddenly broke away and stepped into the woods, but was still staring at the woman as she quickened her pace and managed to escape.
Responding to a request from Global News, Alberta Forestry and Parks sent a written statement saying it is aware of the video and identifies Mount Engadine Lodge as the place where it occurred.
The statement said a bear warning has been put in place in the area around Mount Engadine Lodge and nearby Mount Shark Road and Rummel Lake Trail due to the incident.
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The warning, posted online, says “a grizzly bear exhibited persistent, dog-focused behaviour during an encounter with a hiker and their leashed dog” and made repeated approaches, closing within approximately one metre of them.
The encounter was just one of several recent encounters that have prompted a recent string bear warnings in Kananaskis Country and Banff National Park, located west of Calgary — both popular places for outdoor activities such as hiking, mountain biking, camping, canoeing and fishing.
In another instance, Alberta Parks said a family of four grizzly bears have been frequenting a campground and a camper was forced to use bear spray to scare away one of the animals when it tore a hole in the campers tent.
Following that encounter, Alberta Parks banned the use of tents in two campgrounds, allowing only hard-sided campers to be used.
In Banff National Park, located just north of Kananaskis Country, Parks Canada staff were forced to close a large area, popular with hikers and wilderness campers, along the north shore of Lake Minnewanka after a black bear “damaged and accessed an unoccupied tent” in a backcountry campsite on June 6.
On June 13, two other tents were damaged by a bear at another nearby campsite.
A day later, on June 14, two more tents were damaged at another campground.
While there were no reports of injuries, Parks Canada immediately evacuated all campers from the area and closed the area to backcountry users.
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She must have inhaled all her bear-spray before going for a walk in BEAR COUNTRY – killing all braincells and common sense.
Somebody needs to block the Incels from commenting. They’re annoyed that a woman defeated a bear.
” “a grizzly bear exhibited persistent, dog-focused behaviour during an encounter with a hiker and their leashed dog”
Dogs and bears, a dangerous mix. It seems dogs attract bears by their behaviour then run back to their owner with a bear in ‘hot pursuit’.
Too bad it didn’t eat her. Dumb btch
Uh why would u open ur door to a bear?
she gives the new meaning to stunned c**t
Stupid woman
I mean other than having bear spray, and maybe she did in the beginning it’s hard to tell, what a phenomenal job she did staying calm and not backing down to what was obvious aggressive protective/predatory behaviour towards her dog. Excellent!
Amazing performance by the woman over a lengthy period of time. Not many could keep their cool and stop the bears persistent attacks. She kept control of her dog, when most would have released theirs hoping to draw the bear away. It seems she didn’t have bear spray, but who would think of this on an early morning walk with your coffee and dog. The article mentions a number of serious encounters with bears in Banff and Kanannaskis areas. Why? Are the bears hungry?Are they habituated to humans? What would have happened to the woman if she hadn’t been able to stop a very dangerous bear?? The parks are for people too. Maybe its time for more serious action against these types of bears as history shows they don’t change.
Well, that really was not a bear. It was the ucp leader in her weekend costume.
they showed the other video of the older guy saying there was a bear in his yard, the dog is barking, so the brain cells said lets leave the house to scare the bear. What a stupid thing to do, then the bear walks up the porch stair and the man and the dog are there and the man didn’t have time to open the door? It is like one of the old scifi funny monster movies of the monster walking slow and the young couple can’t get away. He lives in bear country and this ends up his arm gets scratched, well gee wiz, then move . It is not the bears fault for any of these events, it is the people invading their homeland. The killer conservation officers caught two small bears and then set up a third trap and got a larger bear but they have no clue if the larger bear is the one that was in his yard. Who wants to bet the KILLER CONSERVATION OFFICERS killed the three bears.
Close the parks so the bears and other wildllife can be left in peace. But no, they can close parks for aboriginal reasons, but not for the wildlife. There should be gigantic signs saying bears are around you enter at your own risk. Also list of the do’s and don’ts when they go to these places. I bet they will hunt and kill the bears now , all because of the video. I didn’t see the bear being aggressive, more like checking out the lady and the dog. The lady did a good job making noise and not panicking
Instead of putting her phone away and reach for a rock or two to throw at the bear. She wanted to risk her life by recording the event as a keep sake!
Ridiculous!
There is bear warnings throughout there us common sense an stay away