Sharp-eyed dog is being hailed as the best hiking partner after identifying a beary dangerous predator's path in the snow, refusing to let his owner take another step.

• "My dog found some grizzly reasons for us to turn back."

  -ferniekid

   

  Now that's one way to put it. As it seems, this is a beary dangerous path to take. Honestly, we're not sure how we would react if we were in this person's shoes (or boots, more accurately, considering the amount of snow on the ground). But if we really try to imagine the situation, a brown bear wouldn't be the only thing in close proximity there, if you catch our drift. We'd nope so hard and book it. Seriously, bears might be friend-shaped, but they're actually pretty scary predators. We don't want to just happen to walk on one's territory in the wild. There's no “oopsie” out of a situation like this.

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• ArethaAbrams

  yeah that’s a hard nope from me. good call turning around

   

  -Harebrained-

  🌈𝙜𝙧𝙞𝙯𝙯𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙧𝙪𝙣 𝙖𝙨 𝙛𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙨 𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙨⭐

   

  BellFirestone

  Wut 😮

   

  Relevantspite

  The dog standing there like “OK just bear with me here”

   

  Necessary-Mousse8518

  Where was this picture taken?

   

  ferniekid

  The lower part of the mountains in Fernie, BC, Canada 🇨🇦

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  Two important things we've just checked, to make sense of the situation:

  First, bears really do run remarkably fast. If they spot prey at a short distance, they can run up to 35-40 mph (56-64 km/h), which is much faster than humans. Seriously, this is no joke. Bears can outrun people with ease. They can also maintain this insane speed on uneven terrain, like going uphill. Good luck running from a bear in this situation.

  And secondly, for the location - apparently Fernie, BC is a prime bear country. Both black bears and grizzly bears live in the area, and are constantly spotted by locals in towns when they emerge from hibernation. That sounds more like humans living where the bears are, and not bears invading human spaces.

  Now, combine these two facts together, and it's no wonder you should take an extra pair of eyes on hikes in the area.

   

• Pileopilot

  Was in Jasper a couple summers ago and my boy refused to hike. We were down from Alaska, and he was no stranger to seeing bears in the woods, mostly blackies, but he wanted absolutely nothing to do with the grizzlies he was smelling. I got him 2.5miles into the woods, which was work and I finally just turned us around. He offered absolutely no resistance on the way back to the truck.

   

  pinewind108

  Jasper is exactly where I saw a paw print that was the size of a dinner plate. I'd heard their prints were big, but couldn't believe just how d*mn huge it was.

  It was in the mud on the trail in front of me, and extremely fresh, and with brush all around both sides of the trail. Talk about an "Oh sh**!" moment. I was carefully looking around to see if he was still there in that brush looking at me.

   

  Pileopilot

  The level of adrenaline you get in those moments is crazy.
  I was fishing one evening outside of Juneau and had that exact thing happen. It was low light and I just had to get that one last cast. As I was tying on the fly for that cast, I looked up and directly across the hole from where I was, probably 60 feet(18m for our metric friends) away at most was a brownie watching me. It was sitting and waiting for me to land a Sockeye. I yelled and it took off through the woods, it moved so fast and I lost sight of it. I immediately packed up and headed out. I had made that same hike of about 3 miles countless times, but that night it felt like I was on a treadmill. By the time I got to the truck I was drained, still an 8/10 evening though.

   

  pinewind108

  I was hiking with some friends through some tall scrub and young trees and was at the front of the line. Then I see a black bear with a cub maybe 10 feet in front of me.

  It was like viewing the world through a stobe light. Flash - black bear. Flash - bright green brush and trees as I'm going back the other way. Flash - I come out of the brush about a 100 meters back along the gravel of a river bank. I was furthest in, but came out first, lol. I don't remember passing anybody but apparently I passed the entire line of 7 people.

   

  CookieScholar

  Me too! Well not quite IN Jasper, around that beaver boardwalk in Hinton. Jesus those were some BIG PRINTS in the snow. Even seeing photos like the one in this thread doesn't quite compare to your brain having the opportunity to process the actual size in direct comparison to your own puny body.

   

  ferniekid

  I bet his tail was up all the way home.

   

  Pileopilot

  That quick stop/smell/stare into the woods is what I remember most. My hand on the bear spray just wondering if the pup would be one of those heroes that run out and find help… ngl, he had me stressed out about it and I’ve been hiking and fishing around grizzlies for years.

   

  ZeroTheHero23

  I would never be afraid of bears when walking in the woods - unless I'm with a dog.

  Most bear attacks are caused by unleashed dogs luring the bear back to the owners.

  Whenever I've seen bears (including a Grizzly Sow with cubs in Banff) they wanted nothing to do with us, and most often yielded the trail. We definately had our bear spray out of our holsters and were speaking loudly though.

   

  bobbybuildsbombs

  Yeah, i love my dogs, but it's pretty clear that hiking with dogs dramatically increases the risk of a violent bear encounter.

   

  janosaudron

  What exactly makes you go to the woods where grizzlies are?

   

  RacistParrot

  If you see a tree in Alaska you’re where grizzlies are.

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