That didn't happen. That encounter only exists within your mind. People like to judge these encounters as what-if scenarios but the thing about it is I have thousands of bear encounters. Not a single one has ever gone badly. Even when the bears get curious get aggressive, I have always been able to run them off or deal with the situation appropriately. SO the WHAT IF scenarios don't really matter to me. They are in people's heads. What is in there isn't my responsibility or concern. My concern is what actually happens. In over a decade out with these bears, I have allowed nothing bad to happen. That is just a fact, and people like to forget that there are folks walking with lions, raising bear cubs, and doing all sorts of crazy shit. There's no degree for this stuff, its all experience, and when experience is the only thing keeping the danger at bay, people don't see all the years, all the trial and error, all the learning because none of that goes into the camera. You can't capture experience and knowledge in a photo or video, so you bring people this amazing content that's recorded ethically and with so much care, and they blow everything out of proportion talking about what if this and what if that when the bottom line is if any of you guys have thought up a realistic what if scenario with a bear my team and I have either lived it or thought about it too. No one in the last 20 years has been mauled on this river, and thousands of people visit. I am just the guide who after growing up out here, and surviving in bear country since I was a literal prepubescent boy, is able to capture how incredible this place is. I'm not ashamed, and I am open with everyone about the dangers, and the realities.
Grizzly Alaska
That didn't happen. That encounter only exists within your mind. People like to judge these encounters as what-if scenarios but the thing about it is I have thousands of bear encounters. Not a single one has ever gone badly. Even when the bears get curious get aggressive, I have always been able to run them off or deal with the situation appropriately. SO the WHAT IF scenarios don't really matter to me. They are in people's heads. What is in there isn't my responsibility or concern. My concern is what actually happens. In over a decade out with these bears, I have allowed nothing bad to happen. That is just a fact, and people like to forget that there are folks walking with lions, raising bear cubs, and doing all sorts of crazy shit. There's no degree for this stuff, its all experience, and when experience is the only thing keeping the danger at bay, people don't see all the years, all the trial and error, all the learning because none of that goes into the camera. You can't capture experience and knowledge in a photo or video, so you bring people this amazing content that's recorded ethically and with so much care, and they blow everything out of proportion talking about what if this and what if that when the bottom line is if any of you guys have thought up a realistic what if scenario with a bear my team and I have either lived it or thought about it too. No one in the last 20 years has been mauled on this river, and thousands of people visit. I am just the guide who after growing up out here, and surviving in bear country since I was a literal prepubescent boy, is able to capture how incredible this place is. I'm not ashamed, and I am open with everyone about the dangers, and the realities.
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