It was the summer of 1996 when William Young — an Alaskan fond of wilderness and solitude — survived an attack by a brown bear.
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LISTEN: What I learned from an unusual brown bear encounter near Anchorage
That afternoon we overlooked bear scat and moved quietly through brushy terrain. We carried one bear spray between the two of us, and I secured it to my pack in a way that made it hard to get to.
LISTEN: The night a black bear pawed our tent
Emma Farnsworth and her boyfriend woke to the sound of their tent tearing. The first thing she saw was an eye.
‘Stop running!’: How a black bear diverted an Anchorage marathon
UAA’s assistant athletics director ended up hopping on his bike and leading marathon runners around a black bear sow.