Steven Rinella

So I'm like, what are the chances that would ever happen, you know?

I fall asleep again.

I hear something again, and I wake up, and here's a black bear standing there, and the dude in the same spot, okay?

I go to grab my bow, he spooks, runs down the hill.

I just forget about it, he's gone, he spooked.

Later that afternoon, it starts getting toward evening prime time, and we go down, we go down, happened to go the direction the bear went, but just coincidentally went the direction the bear went.

Get down to the bottom of this ridge, get down to the bottom of this hill where the hill goes down into a riparian area, and hear nails on bark.

something climbing a tree, okay?

I watched this bear go this way.

So I'm like, holy shit, it's the bear.

So I think he's still in the area, and a black bear, you'll spook a black bear, he might go in a tree.

So I run up there thinking I'll tree him.

And if I tree him, I can just get him with my bow, because black bears will climb trees.

But I run up there and it's thick.

And I come busting in there, trying to be like a demon coming in there to encourage the bear to not come down, but go up the tree because I can hear it climbing.

And there's a sow grizzly standing against this tree.

And what I had heard the claws of was her woofing her cubs up the tree.

So when I come busting in, I mean, I'm busting, I bust in like, I mean, easy me to that, painting you in the helicopter, you know?

Like.

Damn.