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Grizzly bear attacks, injures two Glacier hikers
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Grizzly bear attacks, injures two Glacier hikers
Published 8:10 p.m. PDT Saturday, June 29, 2002
WEST GLACIER, Mont. (AP) - Two people hiking in Glacier National Park were attacked and injured Saturday when they surprised a grizzly bear along a backcountry trail, park officials said.
The 15-second attack occurred east of Lake McDonald as the hikers were returning from an overnight trip to the Snyder Lake backcountry campground.
Officials said the victims were Andrea Haver, 22, of Davis, Calif., and Theron Jourda, 19, of Portland, both summer employees in West Glacier.
Haver saw the bear about 10 feet away and dropped to a fetal position and later said she felt the bear on her but suffered only scratches on her shoulder, officials said. Jourda ran at the bear and hit it in the side, distracting it, and then dropped into a fetal position. He suffered deep puncture wounds on his shoulder and upper arm, officials said.
Officials said the hikers returned to the campground where two Whitefish men administered first-aid and then the four walked 4 miles back to Lake McDonald Lodge.
Rangers closed the trail as soon as the attack was reported but said no action was planned against the bear "as it appears the bear reacted in a natural defensive way to a surprise encounter with hikers on the trail," officials said.
http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/3392439p-4418640c.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Published 8:10 p.m. PDT Saturday, June 29, 2002
WEST GLACIER, Mont. (AP) - Two people hiking in Glacier National Park were attacked and injured Saturday when they surprised a grizzly bear along a backcountry trail, park officials said.
The 15-second attack occurred east of Lake McDonald as the hikers were returning from an overnight trip to the Snyder Lake backcountry campground.
Officials said the victims were Andrea Haver, 22, of Davis, Calif., and Theron Jourda, 19, of Portland, both summer employees in West Glacier.
Haver saw the bear about 10 feet away and dropped to a fetal position and later said she felt the bear on her but suffered only scratches on her shoulder, officials said. Jourda ran at the bear and hit it in the side, distracting it, and then dropped into a fetal position. He suffered deep puncture wounds on his shoulder and upper arm, officials said.
Officials said the hikers returned to the campground where two Whitefish men administered first-aid and then the four walked 4 miles back to Lake McDonald Lodge.
Rangers closed the trail as soon as the attack was reported but said no action was planned against the bear "as it appears the bear reacted in a natural defensive way to a surprise encounter with hikers on the trail," officials said.
http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/3392439p-4418640c.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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