[at-l] Utah Bear Attack

[atrailhiker at adelphia.net (Marsha)]

My thoughts exactly. Poor kid. I don't even leave anything scented out of a
bear bag at night!
Marsha
Cleveland
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Copeland" <charles@uswnet.com>
To: "AT-L" <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Utah Bear Attack


> I wonder if the boy had been cooking and spilled food on himself and then
> went to bed in the same clothes.
>
> Charles
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> From: "Quoleldil" <quoleldil@yahoo.com>
> To: "AT-L" <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 11:09 AM
> Subject: [at-l] Utah Bear Attack
>
>
> <http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/West/07/09/bear.attack.ap/index.html>
>
> SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A black bear tried to drag a teenager out of his
> sleeping bag as he and
> other campers slept under the stars in a remote canyon -- the first bear
> attack in Utah in 11
> years, officials said.
>
> Nick Greeve, 18, of West Linn, Oregon, was treated for puncture wounds and
> lacerations at a
> hospital in Price and released, officials said. The animal grabbed him by
> the head and neck, but
> the other campers chased the bear away after hearing Greeve's screams.
>
> Wildlife officers tried to find the bear to kill it, but the animal
> apparently had left the area,
> said Bill Bates, southeastern region wildlife manager for the Utah
Division
> of Wildlife Resources.
>
>
> Greeve was part of a group of 15 campers and five instructors from the
Utah
> Outdoor Leadership
> School who were sleeping in the open early Monday in the canyon about 120
> miles southeast of Salt
> Lake City.
>
> "Bear attacks like this are extremely rare, but they do occur," said Craig
> McLaughlin, mammals
> coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources.
>
> The group was on an 80-mile, four- to five-day float trip on the Green
> River.
>
> Bruce Palmer, executive director of the National Outdoor Leadership School
> headquarters in
> Wyoming, said it was the first time he had heard of a bear attacking one
of
> the school's groups.
> The school, founded in 1965, specializes in whitewater rafting trips in
> areas including Alaska,
> the Pacific Northwest, Chile and New Zealand.
>
> "We do operate in remote areas. There's a whole variety of risks," Palmer
> said.
>
> Greeve was on his way home to Oregon on Wednesday.
>
>
> =====
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