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[CDT-L] Update: Flight of the Spirit Eagle
- Subject: [CDT-L] Update: Flight of the Spirit Eagle
- Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 17:53:40 -0700
Remember when Ginny wrote this?
''Anyhow, we ended up in Anaconda early
because they kicked us out of Glacier. We weren't misbehaving, a bear was.
He tore into some hung packs at a campsite. Until they had resolved the
situation, they closed the trail through the park. Too bad, since Red Eagle
Lake is one of the nicer campsites. They said that if it was a black bear,
they would remove the bear, if it is a grizzly, they would remove the
hikers. Discrimination! ''
Well I wonder if this was the same bear........
http://www.dailyinterlake.com/main_story.html-ssi
http://www.dailyinterlake.com/masthead.html-ssi
Earlier in the day, a sow grizzly bear mauled three people in two separate
incidents in what are
believed to be surprise encounters in the southeast corner of the park.
The attack came 32 years to the date after two park employees were mauled
to death by
grizzlies.
The two men and a women attacked Friday are in stable condition at
Kalispell Regional Medical
Center and none of their injuries are life threatening, Eaker said.
The maulings occurred in two separate incidents around noon on the
Scalplock Lookout Trail
about four miles from the Walton Ranger Station, Eaker said.
Two maintenance workers on horseback came upon the first injured person,
a 42-year-old
Bruce Gillis of Philadelphia as he stumbled down the trail. The workers
were on their way to the
lookout to perform seasonal repairs.
The injured hiker told the men he surprised a bear as he was walking
alone on the trail, Eaker
said. The park workers were able to bandage some of the man's injuries -
numerous puncture
wounds, lacerations, and a severely damaged left arm.
The two other hikers who were mauled - a 45-year-old man from New
Hampshire and
35-year-old woman from Maine - caught up with the maintenance crew as
they were slowly
bringing Gillis down the trail on horseback, Eaker said.
YIKES!!!! Glad they decided to exit stage south...
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