On Wednesday, June 24, a woman walking her dog in Kananaskis, Alberta, encountered an aggressive grizzly bear.
Jelmer de Blois, a guide for Wilderness Escape Adventures, which guides hikes and backpacking trips in the Alberta Rockies, said the woman was out for a morning walk with coffee and her dog when a grizzly bear suddenly appeared nearby on the gravel road they were walking on.
Video taken by de Blois shows the animal walking towards them, then speeding up until it is just a few feet away from the woman and her dog. She screamed things like “stop, stop, no, hey, stop it, go away, bad” in an attempt to scare the animal away.
This image, taken from a video taken by a woman, shows a grizzly bear approaching just a few feet away from her and her dog.
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The bear walked around the woman and her dog several times, occasionally stopping to stand on its hind legs during the face-to-face encounter.
Several times during the encounter, the grizzly bear stood on its hind legs as it approached and circled the woman and her dog.
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As the woman continued to yell at the bear, it suddenly broke free and stepped into the forest, but was still looking at the woman as she quickened her pace and managed to escape.
In response to a request from Global News, Alberta Forestry and Parks sent a written statement saying it was aware of the video and identified Mount Engadine Lodge as the location where it occurred.
The statement said a bear warning was issued in the area of Mount Engadine Lodge and near Mount Shark Road and Rummel Lake Trail following the incident.
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The alert posted online said the “grizzly bear exhibited persistent dog-oriented behavior during an encounter with a hiker and his leashed dog” and repeatedly approached, coming within approximately one meter of them.
The encounter was just one of several recent sightings that prompted recent warnings about rope bears in Kananaskis Country and Banff National Park, both west of Calgary – both popular destinations for outdoor activities such as hiking, mountain biking, camping, canoeing and fishing.
In another case, Alberta Parks reported that a family of four grizzly bears frequented a campground and one of the campers was forced to use bear spray to scare off one of the animals when it made a hole in the campers’ tent.
Following this meeting, Alberta Parks banned the use of tents at two campgrounds, allowing only hard-sided tents.
The encounter between a woman, her dog and a grizzly bear is one of several incidents involving bears in recent days in the Alberta Rockies.
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In Banff National Park, just north of Kananaskis Country, Parks Canada was forced to close a large area popular with tourists and wilderness campers along the north shore of Lake Minnewanka after a black bear “damaged and entered an unoccupied tent” at a backcountry campsite on June 6.
On June 13, two other tents were damaged by a bear at another campsite nearby.
A day later, on June 14, two more tents were damaged at another campground.
Although no injuries were reported, Parks Canada immediately evacuated all campers from the area and closed the area to backcountry visitors.
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