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.
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.
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.
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.
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