S4B85 Bear Encounter Mother and Cub

Bear encounter tonight on the Bells Gap Trail. Let's just say i was extremely lucky. Mother and cub amd cub was running before I saw them. Mother bear ears were back and gave me a death stare as we locked eyes. I got the "F" out of there in opposite direction. That was scariest wildlife encounter I ever had. If indid not happen to see the cub up on the bank when i did and kept going the direction i was which was same way cub was I have no doubt the mother would have came after me. Pure luck i saw it and saw Mother when I did. This was 6 mile up on the trail, so the woods part of the trail. Of course i ran away, I had get out of the situation amd couldn't just stand there, yes I know not supposed to run but yea video explains better.

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Episode Transcript

(00:02):
Just had a scary bear encounter,and I do mean scary.
It was fucking frightening on the Bells gap trail off a Tyrone
Bellwood way. I was doing the whole trail the
whole 6.3 miles out and back for12.6.
Whatever. I made it to 6.3 and was coming
back probably about two 3/10 andfrom the 6.3, like from the far

(00:26):
end, I just had a applesauce electrolyte thing that I was
wanting to eat. Then I was looking at my watch.
I happened to like lift my head back up to look at the trail and
I see this movement on the side of the hill.
It's about, you know, a 20 foot bank or whatever you want to

(00:47):
call it and some high grass and I noticed it was black.
I'm like, what the hell is that?First I was like, wait a minute,
like a feral pig or something. Like for, for some reason I
thought feral pig right away. That is, wait a minute, that's a
baby cub, bear cub. And I'm like, oh shit, I was
like, shit, where's the mother? You know, first thing is like as

(01:07):
soon as I realized there's a bear, I was like, where's the
mother? Where's the mother?
I look directly to my left on that bank, probably 10 yards
deep into the woods up on that like 20 foot bank.
There's mother bear staring directly at me and she was
giving me the death stare. I'll tell you what, me and her

(01:29):
locked eyes and it looked like she her ears were back and it
looked like I was about ready toget my ass pounced.
Luckily I saw that cop. If I probably would have kept
running and not noticed it, my ass probably would have been
mauled or trampled, whatever youwant to call it.
Wow that was some scary shit. I stalked that on my tracks,
realized what was going on in the situation.

(01:51):
I was. I fucking no, you're not
supposed to run, but my ass justfucking bolted back towards the
gate because the gate, the turn around where I was going, maybe
I don't know, another 10 yards past the gate, there's like a
road, like an actual like 2 lanehighway Rd.
I was like, I got to get to there and get some help.

(02:12):
Get that fuck out of here, man. Like I'm smiling and shit now
because because I'm still a little nervous and shaking up
about it, but I took off and I was frightened as I kept looking
back, as I'm running, looking back, I was like, shit, is she
coming? She coming, She coming, you
know, not knowing what's going on, just trying to get some
distance away and hopefully she's not running at me in the

(02:35):
woods where I can't see, you know, because I'm looking like
down the trail. I can't see what's happening on
the bank in the woods above me. Luckily she didn't come at me or
come after me. I got to the end of the trail,
thank God there was a vehicle. Some kid was getting ready to go
in the woods on his bike. I start going, hey, hey, hey.

(02:58):
He he realized something was going on.
So he didn't continue to ride his bike and he took me back to
the start at the trailhead like the Tyrone side.
But man, that was close encounter like I was.
I wouldn't say I was in between the two because the IT was still
angled on the hill. They were still on the same
side. But I'll tell you what, that

(03:19):
book that she was giving me, that mother bear, I'm telling
you, if I would have kept going down the trail, because that's
where the cup took off was on the bank down the side of the
trail, it might, it might not have ended well for me today.
But as I'm running back, I'm also like puking up that

(03:40):
applesauce because like the adrenaline rush, like I'm like
puking like all my shorts and stuff, not much, just like
spitting up some just from like the adrenaline rush, like fear
going through my body because itwas scary as shit at the time
because it caught me off guard. I had no bear spray, no gun,
nothing. And it was just like I was in
the, I was in a bad situation. I knew I was in a bad situation.

(04:02):
I knew I had to get out of thereright away and not just stand
there and look or make some noise or whatever because that
cup was running. So yeah, I was luckily that kid
told me I felt bad because I wasdripping in sweat and he said he
didn't mind. He was a really nice kid.
I talked to him a little bit. But yeah, so be careful if

(04:25):
you're going to be on the Bells Gap Trail and go the whole way
to the end, like where the game lands woods parts of it are,
because there's definitely a mother and cub in that area.
Not saying as though you're going to stay there, but they
were definitely along the trail like 7:00 PM today would have
still daylight out. So wow, that was the first time

(04:48):
I was near a mother and cub in my life and I did not like that
feeling and I felt definitely scared to death.
When I say scared to death, I domean scared to death.
And even when like when I was running this, like I started to
run because I was actually goingto go to the six to 10 trail

(05:10):
today, but it was raining in Duncansville, but not up here in
Tyrone. So I paved it up the Bells Gap.
And as I started running, I was like, man, just today's just not
your day. You're like the body just didn't
feel like I wanted to run. And every mile I was going, it's
just like, man, you just need toquit today and turn around, turn
around. And I was like, no, I'm going to

(05:31):
finish this. I'm going to see what I could do
because I was trying to do like a tempo speed work run today.
It would have been like 12.6 miles and I was just like you
just keep going, just push him through, you know, whatever.
At one point I did stop at like 5 miles or 4 1/2 somewhere
around there and I was like all right, I'm just done for the day
because I blew up bad. I started heading back like 1015

(05:56):
feet. Then I turned back around.
I was like, no, you're going to finish this today since you
drove up here. Waste of time, but something I
guess that was somebody's way gohis way, somebody's way of
telling me not to continue on today.
Just the way my body felt after every step I was taken.
Legs retired. I was blowing up, really back

(06:17):
getting overheated. And wow, yeah, I guess that was
my warning sign to just turn around and get that F out of
there today and not be on the trail.
Should have listened, but I was being too stubborn and, you
know, trying to toughen myself up.
But wow, never in my life have Ibeen that scared.

(06:39):
Well, I mean, I've been that scared before in my life with
wildlife encounters and that wasthe first time, like I said,
mother and cub have encountered that in the middle of the woods.
That's not a feeling that you want to feel when you don't have
no protection at all on you. So be careful and be aware of

(07:03):
your surroundings. And I was wearing my headphones
so I wouldn't have heard them atall coming at me if she was
running down through the woods, Still would have been too late.
I wouldn't have seen that cop running through the woods
either. I just, I mean, I wouldn't have
heard it running through the woods.
I just happened to see it. So wow.

(07:27):
If I have 9 lives, I definitely lost one or two today.
Wow.