[Jeff Higgins]

Talk to any hunting guide who has been at it awhile up in Alaska, and they will all tell you about encounters with big bears that are very similar to the one in that video. The most hair raising one I heard was when one of the guides I was hunting with told me about meeting a big brown on a very narrow "trail" (just a game trail, really) through one of those "dog hair" alder thickets that line the rivers. They literally bumped into one another. They both jumped back, then stood there staring at one another, "for about three or four weeks". The bear finally approached, the guy squeezed as far off the trail as he could, and the bear just squeezed on by - "excuse me...". The thing kept walking and never looked back.