[pct-l] grizzly attack

[shelvinrock at comcast.net (shelvinrock@comcast.net)]

check out:
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/anchorage/story/6856112p-6751904c.html
tim s.From shelvinrock at comcast.net  Fri Aug 26 03:13:30 2005
From: shelvinrock at comcast.net (shelvinrock@comcast.net)
Date: Fri Aug 26 04:16:26 2005
Subject: [pct-l] grizzly attack [again]
Message-ID: <082620050913.24033.430EDD39000CAE3F00005DE12200745672050C019D020790040A089C@comcast.net>

appears like that anchorage daily news article won't open without a lot of "registration" bs, so i'll just copy the comcast news item...
tim s.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A man walking his dog down an overgrown trail southeast of his Chugach Foothills neighborhood Tuesday evening was attacked by a grizzly sow.
"I hadn't taken one or two steps when the bear burst out of the brush," Gary Paterna said Wednesday. "It charged down and then it stopped."
The grizzly sow, with at least one cub, charged Paterna, swatted his chest and knocked him to the ground. But Paterna's dog, a 9-year-old Brittany spaniel named Tok, drew the bear's attention.
The bear pounced on the dog, giving Paterna time to leap to this feet.
"What I remember was just how big the head was _ it seemed enormous," Paterna said later.
Twice more, the bear knocked him down, but Tok's presence seemed to interrupt each attack.
After the third hit, the bear bolted up the trail, allowing Paterna and Tok to run for the a trail.
The encounter was perhaps 1,200 yards from suburban homes and lawns.
Paterna, 60, suffered scrapes and a sore hip where he'd fallen, plus five scratches from the bear's claws and a purple bruise across his chest.
His dog, Tok, didn't appear hurt at all.
"We were pretty much face-to-face. I thought, 'Here it comes. She's going to chew on me.' But she backed off," said Paterna. "It's great to be alive."
Paterna said he plans to carry a larger can of bear spray in the future and practice firing it. And he will avoid overgrown trails with poor visibility.
The bear left a muddy paw print on his old T-shirt.
"It's got a beautiful claw mark," Paterna said. "I think I'm going to get that one framed."
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Information from: Anchorage Daily News, http://www.adn.comFrom Hiker97 at aol.com  Fri Aug 26 05:02:51 2005
From: Hiker97 at aol.com (Hiker97@aol.com)
Date: Fri Aug 26 06:05:51 2005
Subject: [pct-l] ALDHA Gathering White Paper
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