These Two Wrestlers Fought A Grizzly Bear....And Won!

Welcome back to Scary Bear Attacks! Today’s episode takes us back to the Shoshone Forest to the Bobcat-Houlihan Trailhead about 28 miles southwest of Cody, Wyoming and 24 miles east of the Yellowstone National Park boundary. If this area sounds familiar, our last two episodes were set there. The broad valley of the south fork of the Shoshone River rises around 1500 ft to the mesa’s and steep mountains to the north. When I think of grizzly bears I think of remote forests and rugged peaks, but this area features cliffs and sage brush. Not exactly grizzly territory, but then again, if they were predictable there wouldn’t be many attacks. Kendal Cummings and Brady Lowry were teammates on the wrestling team at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming. Together with their fellow teammates and friends, Orrin Jackson and August Harrison, the young men decided to go shed hunting. Now, Kendal was a sophomore at the college and was from Evanston, Wyoming. Lowry was a 2 time state champion from Cedar City, Utah, where his father coached him. Hunting sheds is a fun way to get outside and is enjoyed by people throughout the continent. In the depth of winter, male deer and elk will drop their antlers to begin growing new ones to defend their breeding rights over females. When the antlers drop to the ground they continue a cycle of nutrient circulation providing calcium to mice, squirrels and soils in the area. The boys weren’t thinking about all of that though, as they hiked the incline above where they parked their vehicle at the trailhead parking lot, after they had completed Saturday morning wrestling practice. They just wanted to go find some cool sheds and enjoy the outdoors together. On October 17th, 2022 the four young men hiked about five miles up the trail packing a can of bear spray each and a firearm.he skin as his hand uselessly hung connected only by the flesh.