You would not want to walk three quarters of a mile of their shoes.
Geoffrey Zhou, 21, said he was recently climbing the Howe Sound Crest Trail in Vancouver, Canada with 4 friends once they spotted a big black bear.
“We first noticed the bear after we spotted a dark shadow emerging from the fog,” says an engineering student on the University of British Columbia SWNS reported.
“He stayed at a gradual pace, so we got here back at a rather faster pace in order not to alarm him by keeping our distance.”
Zhou said the bear slowly followed his group for nearly half an hour, forcing them to hike about three-quarters of a mile up the trail backwards – until they were able to hide behind a bush.
“After a couple of kilometer, we were able to find an element of the trail that had a gradual uphill slope,” Zhou continued.
“I instructed my friends to climb up and crouch behind the bushes. They were shocked and wanted to run away.”
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Zhou said he had been trained within the wild and knew what to do.
“While we were hiding behind the bushes, I told my friends to take off their backpacks in case he attacked us,” he recalls.
“I’d pour bear spray on him and we’d run away, perhaps throwing our backpacks at him to create far.”
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However the bear spray was unnecessary because, Zhou says, the bear walked past the group without incident, despite being lower than 15 feet away.
Also in Vancouver, the so-called “Coke Bear” is accused of drinking 69 cans of soda he stole from a lady’s automotive.
And a North Carolina man recently reported coming face to face with an enormous black bear watching him on his patio.