Alberta woman catches encounter with Kananaskis grizzly bear on camera - BERITAJA

On Wednesday, June 24, a female who was retired stepping her canine successful Alberta’s Kananaskis Country had an brushwood pinch an fierce grizzly bear.

Jelmer de Blois, a guideline pinch Wilderness Escape Adventures, which provides guided camping and hiking trips successful Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, said the female was retired for a greeting locomotion pinch her java and her dog, erstwhile abruptly the grizzly carnivore appeared a short region distant connected the gravel road they were stepping on.

Video changeable by de Blois shows the animal stepping toward them, past quickening its pace, appearing to travel wrong conscionable a fewer feet of the female and her dog. She yelled specified things arsenic “stop, enough, no, hey, extremity it, spell away, bad,” successful an effort to scare the animal away.

The carnivore circled the female and her canine respective times, stopping connected juncture to rear up connected its hind legs successful the face-to-face encounter.

As the female continued to outcry astatine the bear, it abruptly collapsed distant and stepped into the woods, but was still staring astatine the female arsenic she quickened her gait and managed to escape.

The brushwood took spot amid a caller drawstring of carnivore warnings successful Kananaskis Country and Banff National Park, located about 90 minutes westbound of Calgary — some celebrated places for outdoor activities specified arsenic hiking, upland biking, camping, canoeing and fishing.

In different instance, Alberta Parks said a family of 4 grizzly bears person been frequenting a campground and a camper was forced to usage their carnivore spray to scare distant 1 of the animals erstwhile it tore a spread successful the campers tent.

Following that encounter, Alberta Parks banned the usage of tents successful 2 campgrounds, allowing only hard-sided campers to beryllium used.

In Banff National Park, located conscionable northbound of Kananaskis Country, Parks Canada unit were forced to adjacent a ample area, celebrated pinch hikers and wilderness campers, on the northbound statement of Lake Minnewanka aft a achromatic carnivore “damaged and accessed an unoccupied tent” successful a backcountry campsite connected June 6.

On June 13, 2 different tents were damaged by a carnivore astatine different adjacent campsite.

A time later, connected June 14, 2 much tents were damaged astatine different campground.

While location were nary reports of injuries, Parks Canada instantly evacuated each campers from the area and closed the area to backcountry users.