山路上与熊相遇的时候……

rockysnow

山路上与熊相遇的时候……

在登山的时候如何避免与熊相遇？碰见熊会发生什么？应该怎么做？
对此类问题已经有不少说法，只是都是理论，很少能得到检验。

以下有三则实例，第一则是昨天报纸上的一篇报道，后两则是我今年登山时碰到的情况。

实例一：昨天报纸上的一篇报道

一名检验丰富的登山向导和他的一名客人在Lake Louise地区的Mount Fairview 和Saddleback Pass之间碰见一只棕熊。

尽管他们按照那些说法与熊周旋，但似乎并不起太大作用
棕熊在10到15分钟内跟随他们300米，直到离他们只有10米左右距离。
不得已他们把背包丢弃，爬到一棵大树上。
而棕熊居然也追着他们爬上树，他们爬到25米高，棕熊爬到18米高。
最终在他们的大声喊叫和用头灯向熊投掷等手段下，棕熊退下去了
在棕熊离去半小时内，他们不敢下树，在树上大声求救，而棕熊居然又被他们喊回来了。

最终，棕熊离去，后来又先后有两个Hiker和他们相遇，并向公园求救，在公园带枪工作人员的护送下下山。


这故事听着像天方夜谭，至于你信不信，反正我是信了。

附报道原文：
Canmore guide, Japanese visitor safe after being chased up a tree by grizzly

  By Cathy Ellis, For the Calgary Herald September 27, 2011

LAKE LOUISE — One of North America’s top mountaineers was stalked by a grizzly bear for about 300 metres and chased up a tree as he guided a client in the Lake Louise area of Banff National Park.
In what he described as one of the scariest moments of his life, Canmore’s Barry Blanchard said the grizzly bear climbed about 18 metres up the tree, where he and his client were clinging to nimble branches 25 metres up for well over an hour.
“A bear coming at you is way more scary than an avalanche, thunderstorms, crevasses,” said Blanchard, who is a top alpinist noted for pushing the standards of highly technical, high-risk alpine climbing in the Canadian Rockies and the Himalayas.
“When he was coming up the tree, it was terrifying. That’s a huge amount of adrenalin for one day.”
As the grizzly bear, a six-year-old male bear fitted with a radio collar, got higher up the tree, Blanchard screamed for help and his client blew his whistle in the hope of scaring it away.
“I could see the bear’s eyes. He was five to eight metres away. He’d stopped and was panting really hard and I screamed at the bear to get out of the tree,” he said.“I think it was too hard work for him, so he went down out of the tree, but he had gone up 18 metres trying to get us.”
The drama began to unfold Monday morning when Blanchard was taking a client from Japan to climb the north glacier of Mount Aberdeen. They encountered the grizzly on the slopes below the Mount Fairview trail on the way to Saddleback Pass.
Blanchard said the bear stood up, prompting him and his client to begin slowly backing down the trail, and despite talking firmly but calmly to the bear at this point, the grizzly began to follow them, all the while closing the gap.
“He followed us for about 300 metres, for about 10 or 15 minutes, and then he sat down and we thought maybe he wasn’t interested, but then he stood up and started following us again,” said the international mountain guide.
“He started to close the distance — he wasn’t running, just walking — but then he got to within 10 metres away from us.”
It was at this point that Blanchard realized there was no appropriate escape route to stop the bear from following, other than to climb up a tree to try to get himself and his client to safety.
Blanchard said the bear didn’t charge them, but began to accelerate his pace, forcing them to drop their backpacks to try to divert the bear’s attention. He had his cellphone in the pack.
“We started up the tree and we could hear the bear ripping apart our packs,” he said.
“After about half an hour of sitting in the tree, the tree started to vibrate and I realized the bear was coming up the tree. We had to go higher.”
At this point, Blanchard said he feared strong wind gusts would topple the top of the tree, which was holding about 135 kilograms in the combined weight of the two men.
“When the wind gusts would come, I would lean into the wind, and the whole time the bear was snapping off branches, coming up the tree. It was terrifying,” he said.
“He went back to the packs and started ripping the packs apart, and he started coming to the tree again. I screamed at him to go away, threw a headlamp at him, and he started off down the trail. We waited another half-hour in the tree.
“We thought after half an hour, maybe he’d be gone. We screamed for help some more, but he came back up the trail. All I can assume is he was waiting for us to come out of the tree.”
The bear eventually took off, and about five minutes later, a hiker came across Blanchard and his client, and then another hiker came by and one of them was able to raise the alarm for help.
A Parks Canada employee, armed with a shotgun, escorted Blanchard, his client and the two hikers down the trail to safety.
Despite his ordeal, Blanchard said he holds no ill will toward the grizzly bear.
“I hope it doesn’t turn out bad for the bear. I hope the bear is left to be a bear,” he said.
“I am happy we didn’t have physical contact with him . . . but I can’t hold him at fault for being a bear.”
Blanchard said he was not carrying bear spray, but said he believes he did everything else right to avoid a more serious encounter.
“I’m going to have bear spray all the time now,” he said. “It would have given me another option. Maybe it would have helped, but the other side is, maybe it just would have pissed him off.”
Parks Canada officials say the bear, which has been involved in other encounters this summer, has since moved on.
They say there are no closures or warnings in place because the radio-collared bear is being closely monitored.
“This is undesirable behaviour. We’re glad the people didn’t get hurt,” said Hal Morrison, a human-wildlife conflict specialist for Lake Louise, Yoho and Kootenay.
“Visitor safety is important, grizzly bears are important and we’re evaluating what’s going on and making sure we have all the information and complete picture.”
Morrison said Parks Canada recommends hikers carry bear spray and know how to use it.
He said grizzly bears are more adept at climbing trees than people realize, especially trees with limbs.
“Climbing a tree is an option — it’s not the No. 1 option by any means, but in this particular incident, it appeared to be OK,” he said.
Canmore’s Isabelle Dube, who chose to climb a tree in an attempt to escape a bear attack, was killed by a 90-kilogram grizzly bear in June 2005 near the SilverTip Golf Course in Canmore.
Parks Canada urges people to stay alert on the trails, make noise, watch for fresh bear signs, travel in groups, keep dogs on a leash, and carry bear spray and know how to use it.
If people see a bear, Parks Canada asks them to call the 24-hour park dispatch at 403-762-1470. They have more information on their website at http://www.pc.gc.ca/docs/v-g/oursgest-bearmanag/banff.aspx

lulululu

Most bears tend to be wary of humans and often will do anything to avoid us, I am wondering if the bear you mentioned is a "food-conditioned" bear.

rockysnow

实例二：与熊擦肩而过

这是今年夏天在美国Glacier National Park的Many Glacier地区的 Iceberg Lake/Ptarmigan Tunnel 路上发生的。
当天目的地是Ptarmigan Tunnel，我们一行4人才上路不久，就遇见一个园丁（Ranger）告诫我们前方山路附近有熊一家子（一大三小）在活动，让我们一路大声喧哗（make noise）以避免和熊相遇。

听了园丁的话并没有太在意，在落基山行走多年，什么样的山路都走过，从没有遇见过熊。再说这条路上游人众多，就在我们前方100米左右就有两组行人。这么多人，熊肯定早就跑了。

漫不经心的低头赶路，偶一抬头，看见前面的那组行人还有其他几个人站在百米开外的山路上，向我们这里指指点点。心里奇怪，为什么他们对我们指指点点的，难道我们做错了什么？

等我们到了他们面前，他们才指给我们看，在我们刚才经过的山路旁几米高的山坡上，一只棕熊正在那里吃东西。

乖乖，幸亏我们默默赶路，要是真的大声喧哗，搅了熊的美食，说不定那家伙一怒之下，就把我们美食了。

驻足观看的人中有几个是要下山的，这下也不敢动了，站在这里等着熊吃饱了离去再走。

这时树丛中的熊不见了，正在大家猜测是不是熊这一家子已经离开了的时候，熊这一家子突然出其不意的出现在山路上，而且…

而且是向我们走了过来。

大家吓得赶紧向后逃。


等我拍了一张照片，回头一看，我的伙伴，平时总是磨磨蹭蹭，拖拖拉拉的，这时早就跑没影了。看来棕熊刺激比物质刺激还要管用。

我们还好，正好上山，离熊越来越远，可下山的那些人倒霉了，我们走出去快一公里了，他们还在后退等待。直到我们进入树林看不见为止，也不知道熊这一家子什么时候离开的。

nature

Calgary Herald 事件报道的链接：

http://www.calgaryherald.com/tra ... /5466972/story.html