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Speaker A
1:26 - 2:10
"I hear the, uh, 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 And then it faced me, and then it came up off the ground on its hind legs, put its head back and gave a big roar."
“I hear the, uh, 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 And then it faced me, and then it came up off the ground on its hind legs, put its head back and gave a big roar.”
- Speaker
- Speaker A
- Timestamp
- 1:26 – 2:10
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Kenai Peninsula
- Captured at
- June 15, 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, uh, 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 And then it faced me, and then it came up off the ground on its hind legs, put its head back and gave a big roar.
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