Hikers encounter bear in Alaska's Katmai National Park

"It's coming right at us!" Two hikers crossed paths with two brown bears while on a walking trail in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve. #shorts

[abesapien]

"Hello Bear"

"Hello Breakfast"

[pikeyboyfoo]

Hey bear is the international way to greet all bears in the wild.

[Weathernerd]

I've seen several bears in my 20 years of hiking and if you find yourself that close to a bear you need to slowly back away from it and make sure you're bear spray/gun is handy. Do not attempt to get a picture unless you want to be dinner. In all but one case the bears I saw immediately scampered away from me, they preferred smaller easier prey. If a Bear does not run away at the sight of a human that means its considering attacking and make no mistake you don't get that close to a bear without it sensing you. The last time I visted Yellowstone I saw so many tourists getting too close to big animals I'm surpised nature didn't hand out a bunch of Darwin awards.

[bruce-qmfl]

The bear was confused. He was wondering, do they mean to my left or their left side of the trail ???? Also, I'm pretty sure he didn't speak English.

[Ofallonchris]

Honestly he’s right to panic in any form. But that bear knew about them long before they knew about it. If it was hungry or perceived them as a threat… there probably wouldn’t have been a video

[I_shidded_and_farded]

From what I’ve seen, Bears are either charging maniacs who clearly want to kill you, or they are just chillin’

[clay]

If he was hungry this wouldn't be on YouTube

[William]

Yeah, I read that a bloodhounds sense of smell is like 2500 times better than a humans and a bears sense of smell is 7 times that of a bloodhound. The bear knew they were there from like 3 miles away

[LIQUIDSNAKEz]

This is literally *THE MOST* terrifying thing to run into while hiking in the forest.

Well, non-human thing.

[TwoPawz-]

When I was in Alaska walking past dark to my motel room that was up 8 steps and down about 5 doors. I heard something and as I opened my room door, I looked back and 5 grizzly bears were there trying to get in a big garbage container that had chains on it. I was within 20 feet when I walked by them, and it was so dark I didn’t notice them… I never walked after dark again and to this day I still get freaked out .

Fast forward 25 years, I was working in a bar in California in the mountains and late at night I had no customers, so I was cleaning up the trash and walked out to a smaller garbage container and this time a black bear was there and I walked straight to him not knowing until he ran brushing against me running away.. note to self stay away from garbage late at night

[InstantGamingNTW]

“Get off the trail”, 🐻 “get off my trail”

[mikezan]

I’m 41 years old and still trying to figure out what’s so cool about hanging out in places where there’s also wild grizzly bears hanging out.

[MrMLBson]

I will absolutely never hike in grizzly bear country

[DanReyesB]

You don't say "Hello, Bear"

You say _Goodbye, Bear_ . Otherwise he's just gonna feel welcome.

[gregsummerson]

Those bears know you are full of preservatives and other additives, they want healthy food!!

[KevinOHaraRosinski]

Bears are such good actors. They try to play it off so hard they almost believe themselves 😅

[kensmith]

I guess it’s safe to say they bearly made it out of there!😂

[Dmasters-dlir]

Haha when I was a child this was like my play ground. My sister and I would always get playtime cut short because our Pyrenees would smell a bear and bring us inside. My mom worked at the park and we lived in king salmon, AK. Bears were an everyday occurrence. It’s their territory not ours especially in Katmai.

[rickyspanish.]

The huffing from the bear implies it became uncomfortable with the people there and luckily it left.

[JBF-GST-Tanda]

Katmai is open to public only during salmon seasons when bears are well-fed by tasty fresh fish and not interested in considering people as food source.