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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9562162" data-attributes="member: 23751">Interestingly enough, I have had a bear encounter and weirdly it was at Yellowstone!  Though it was with a black bear and not a grizzly.  I was with a tour bus and the tour guide drove up to a long line of cars on both sides of the road.  She said that whenever we see this that there is some sort of wildlife to be seen, so she pulled the bus over and we all got out.  I was at the front of bus and across the street a park ranger was standing in the road.  A few moments later a black bear came walking down the road towards us.  When it got to the ranger it decided to stop walking down the road and turned towards me.  That bear passed so close to me that I could have(but didn't) stupidly reached out and touched it.  As it went by it swung its head towards me briefly, and then swung it back forward as if to say, "Huh! A human." and then it kept walking into the forest and vanished from sight.  At no point was I even concerned, let alone afraid.  I remember being super upset with myself for filling up the camera's memory card with silly pictures of things like an Osprey flying low over a river as it fished, a wolf pack lounging on the other side of said river, and a grizzly bear and her cubs off in a field so distant that to the naked eye they were pretty much just two brown dots and a bigger brown blob.  Now, had I been alone in the woods and that black bear been angry, it would have been a different matter, but I still don't know how afraid I would have been.</blockquote>

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