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Roleigh Martin
(marti124) - MLife

Locale: JMT Hiker from NY--see my profile
Bear survives bridge encounter on 10/08/2007 22:29:15 MDT Print View

Backpackers will enjoy these pictures and story (confirmed by Snopes)

http://cellar.org/iotd.php?threadid=15567

This is a cool web site of most interesting photographs on the web daily, and this day it was on this bear.

Edited by marti124 on 10/08/2007 22:29:59 MDT.
Greyson Howard
(Greyhound) - M

Locale: Sierra Nevada
Sierra Sun on 10/10/2007 20:10:29 MDT Print View

That story, and those photos, originally ran in the newspaper I report for, the Sierra Sun.

Here is the complete story:
http://www.sierrasun.com/article/20070918/NEWS01/70917021

We've had bears in the news a lot lately with such a dry summer, with bad human/ bear interactions, so this one, with such a positive outcome, was a nice change of pace.