Blake Gettys
1:26 - 2:02
"I had set up my snares in this area, and I was just walking back and I got to right about here and I hear the, a brown bear wolfed at me. And I turned and the bear was on the other side of this stuff. I could see the toe profile and it looked like a great big male. So I got squared up with it, got my arms up and I just yelled, yelled at it so it knew I was human. And it paused."
“I had set up my snares in this area, and I was just walking back and I got to right about here and I hear the, a brown bear wolfed at me. And I turned and the bear was on the other side of this stuff. I could see the toe profile and it looked like a great big male. So I got squared up with it, got my arms up and I just yelled, yelled at it so it knew I was human. And it paused.”
- Speaker
- Blake Gettys
- Timestamp
- 1:26 – 2:02
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Kenai Peninsula
- Captured at
- July 3, 2026
From the transcript
So I had set up my snares in this area, and I was just walking back and I got to right about here and I hear the, a brown bear wolfed at me. And I turned and the bear was on the other side of this stuff. I could see the toe profile and it looked like a great big male. So I got squared up with it, got my arms up and I just yelled, yelled at it so it knew I was human. And it paused.