Our bears can appear out of nowhere. YOU NEVER expect it, at least most chichakos(Alaskas newbies) don't. But a sourdough is always thinking about it when he is out in the bush-hell in a lot of suburban Alaska too!!
If it is a bear by itself it is generally one on a mission- such as the young Grizzly in this picture. He did not care what was on the bank when he sprang from the brush. He knew there were salmon in the water and little else mattered! Including ME!
I was thankful that it was not a Grizzly cub that darted out with a sow close behind only to realize I was there. Had that been the case, this close, I would have been charged and mauled. Little could stop the rage of a Grizzly sow that close! Humans risk severe injury or death when they run into grizzlies in the wild AND urban Alaska.
