We had a snippet about this on A8 yesterday. Below are some links to the expanded coverage in the Anchorage Daily News. Pretty amazing and scary stuff. A 15-year-old girl was mauled by a grizzly at 1:30 a.m. Sunday during a 24-hour mountain bike race near Anchorage. Needless to say, grizzly attacks are not something we had to worry about during the 24-hour bike race I participated in a couple of weeks ago in West Virginia (though black bears are common in the area, supposedly).

This is an interesting article about the aftermath of the attack. It gets into the debate about what to do when humans and bears encroach on the other’s living space. Up there that debate is a matter if life and death.

Posted by Andy Thompson in • Outdoors • Mountain Biking
(0) Comments | Permalink