The get big and throw rocks and yell hey bear thing is 100% legit. idk what Alone is but that is the correct bear wrangling method. Unless it’s a sloth bear then get your shiv out because someone’s gonna die to day (apparently they’ve adopted an evolutionary strategy of freak out and fight everyone).
In fact, only try that with black bears basically.
(I know it’s a brown bear in the video, but dude just looks confused as fuck. Like he never even imagined a random hairless monkey would ever pop-up into his house).
That is explicitly what you do with brown bears. You’ll never see a polar bear if it’s hunting you so it’s not a problem.
Brown bears are completely chill 99% of the time and will leave you alone as long as you don’t startle them and you’re not covered in bacon grease. Make noise, travel in a group, be diligent in removing food smells from your camp and caching your food, and you’ll be fine.
Brown bears as in grizzlies? I’ll for sure defer to you because I’m not from a place with brown bears. But I thought they were pretty aggressive in many situations (territorial males, females with cubs etc.). And that black bears are way more chill and will usually prefer to run away.
They’re really not. Grizzlies are just inland brown bears. They mostly want to eat berries, salmon, roots, and whatever else they can find. They don’t want to bother people. Males aren’t really territorial about humans and females with cubs want to protect the cubs, not fight you. If you respect their space by making plenty of noise so they know you’re coming and stay away from their babies and food they’ll mostly leave you alone. They are extremely dangerous, but attacks are rare and often happen when the victim made an identifiable mistake - Approaching the bear, keeping food in their tent, traveling alone. There is a risk of bear attack, but the risk can be greatly mitigated with good bear safety practices.
Also mostly just stay away from their kids. I do a lot of hiking in bear areas and the amount of people I see going ooo cubs! and moving towards the bears are astounding. Stay the fuck away from their kids and make sure they hear you coming and you’ll be fine bears are super chill
Alone has poisoned my brain, I was waiting for him to get big, shout “HEY BEAR!” and throw rocks
instead he just got horrifyingly close to the bear’s chompers, because why not
if we could bottle the confidence of the average white man and redistribute it equitably, we could fix the world
The get big and throw rocks and yell hey bear thing is 100% legit. idk what Alone is but that is the correct bear wrangling method. Unless it’s a sloth bear then get your shiv out because someone’s gonna die to day (apparently they’ve adopted an evolutionary strategy of freak out and fight everyone).
Or a brown bear. Or a polar bear.
In fact, only try that with black bears basically.
(I know it’s a brown bear in the video, but dude just looks confused as fuck. Like he never even imagined a random hairless monkey would ever pop-up into his house).
That is explicitly what you do with brown bears. You’ll never see a polar bear if it’s hunting you so it’s not a problem.
Brown bears are completely chill 99% of the time and will leave you alone as long as you don’t startle them and you’re not covered in bacon grease. Make noise, travel in a group, be diligent in removing food smells from your camp and caching your food, and you’ll be fine.
Brown bears as in grizzlies? I’ll for sure defer to you because I’m not from a place with brown bears. But I thought they were pretty aggressive in many situations (territorial males, females with cubs etc.). And that black bears are way more chill and will usually prefer to run away.
They’re really not. Grizzlies are just inland brown bears. They mostly want to eat berries, salmon, roots, and whatever else they can find. They don’t want to bother people. Males aren’t really territorial about humans and females with cubs want to protect the cubs, not fight you. If you respect their space by making plenty of noise so they know you’re coming and stay away from their babies and food they’ll mostly leave you alone. They are extremely dangerous, but attacks are rare and often happen when the victim made an identifiable mistake - Approaching the bear, keeping food in their tent, traveling alone. There is a risk of bear attack, but the risk can be greatly mitigated with good bear safety practices.
Also mostly just stay away from their kids. I do a lot of hiking in bear areas and the amount of people I see going ooo cubs! and moving towards the bears are astounding. Stay the fuck away from their kids and make sure they hear you coming and you’ll be fine bears are super chill