Hiking With Grizzlies - Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- This is part 1 of 3. These are some of my grizzly encounters that I actually got halfway good video while hiking and backpacking in Yellowstone National Park and close the boundary areas around the park. On my youTube channel you can see all of the hikes that I videoed these bear on.
Love seeing all the bears! You and your wife have some great stories! Thank you for sharing!
Stan, I admire your respect for the wildlife, your great camera (I think it is a great camera because you can get good video , often it seems, with the bears not noticing you.) You don’t speak very often and when you do you use a hushed voice only to say what we, as viewers, should know. Mostly you use written banners. The viewer can hear the normal sounds of the wildlife. I love the sounds the bears make. As a human I can imagine the bear talking to him/herself. Realistically, they may be telling cubs to stay close or to let other bears know they are nearby, eating and wanting no trouble. I’m just guessing. Lastly, it is so important when you are filming, you show how far you actually are from the bears. That is great information for someone who is planning a trip to Yellowstone. People who want to film the wildlife should invest in a camera with that capability. Having a spotter is another good idea. You don’t want to get great video of a bear only to be oblivious to the bison who thinks you are too close his cows and young.
I would love for you to do a campfire or informative talk on what cameras you use, how to safely film or photograph the animals of Yellowstone. The park service is doing so much more than campfires and silly songs. (I LOVE campfires and what is a campfire without singing Bill Grogan’s Goat, The Other Day(I Met a Bear) and learning Taps has words?
I love knowing what time of year you filmed. I didn’t realize how drastically bears foods changed depending on the season and many other factors. Looking forward to retirement so I can see Yellowstone sometime other than August!
Amazing video
Excellent complication, really enjoy your work! Will be out there for the month of June for 2nd year in a row, 3rd time overall. Going to focus on your type of hiking. Hard to find a spot for the 5th wheel on the north east/west end of the park. Plan on hiking Slough Creek at least a couple of times. Keep up the good work, inspiring us fellow seniors to get out and enjoy the outdoors
I am glad to hear about your plans. I just wanted to tell you that a lot of the bear that I see are in the northwest area of the park. The Taylor Fork area is just to the northwest only about 3 miles from the park. Lots of good camping areas to park a 5th wheel. If your serious about seeing grizzly up close then the Taylor Fork/Wapiti Creek area is very good (just watch my videos of that area). I have been hiking there for many years and have probably come across most of the grizzly in this area. They are all very well behaved and all react the correct way as long as you never take a weapon with you (just bear spray).
I think you meant copilation, though the bear charge could have been a major complication.
Yikes, compilation not copilation.
@@StanMills I enjoy your videos, thanks for posting. And your right, it's very difficult to video Grizzly's. Oft times when you spot them it's not a good situation and you need to create more distance and when you do you lose sight of them. I appreciate you being Bear savvy. You've also been lucky. I hope anyone following your videos that decides to try this are also.
Well, you wouldn't catch me riding those horses all over the place. That looks dangerous. Which do you think has more risk to injury, riding horses all over the place or backpacking in the Yellowstone area? I am not saying riding is bad but I know and hear of a lot of people being injured on horses. One thing I have notice about people on horses is that they seem to disturb the wildlife very little; in other words the wildlife seem to accept your presence more. Is that true? How do bear react to you? Thank you for your comments.
Good stuff. Enjoyed.
This definitely caught my eye!
I was hiking wapiti when a black bear ran about 20 ft past me into the trees. I about craped myself.
Stan, what was the outcome of the charge? It's hard to tell how far away the bear is from you. Do you think the bear heard you or smelled you? Thanks for the video.
My wife and I ran into the bear at a distance of about 30 yards and he never detected us. We immediately moved back to a strategic observation area 130 yards from the bear that had a good avenue of escape. I just did that little bit of video before he detected us and we immediately moved down the backside of a mound out of site from the bear. I looked back at the last minute and saw the bear stopped after running towards us for 30 yards. Not sure what the bear did after that but we were out of there. It is possible he smelled us and just ran the wrong direction and then when he saw us he stopped running.
Hiking 'with'..Grizzlies..?? Lovely film though!
Stan, I love your videos. Those noises at the beginnig, are they wolves or coyotes? I heard those same sounds in August in Yellowstone.
It is a noisy coyote. Never could spot it though. I like that echoing sound early in the morning.
Was that grizzly growling at you when he ran toward you? That was close.
Your not hiking with grizzly your hiding a mile away.