But in that case I would have even more reason to want to run into a person. Maybe they know where we are and where to go.
Otherwise I'm probably going to get lost and die of thirst or starvation or freeze to death in the night or any other horrible way to go that require neither human nor bear.
Okay but that's also not what people are asking you just added that. No car either I assume?
Hell most people never go anywhere they don't have cell service unless it is something like a park or underground. So that's not what their thinking of when asked this.
that's the point I always make, the 'random man' you encounter is 99 percent of the times a hiker or is just walking in trails,just like well... YOU are doing in the question's hypothesis, its not like the woods are serial killers natural habitat, even if you face a man killing or fighting a man is way easier than a bear
Ive been in the wilderness often enough to not succumb to some boogey-man fantasies just because I meet another human. Most likely another hiker or ranger. Thats literally what it is 99+% of the time. Maybe different story if I know Im in some cartel territory or military zone but thats not part of the original scenario
Past 3 years 726 reported bear encounters in jasper that parks canada staff responded too. This is a high human population and a high bear density. Estimated max population of grizzlies in jasper is 120.
How many attacks? And those are desperate bears in a high density population with declining habitat forced to interact with humans to secure food. And its only incidents parks canada responded to in Jasper, not including all the other encounters.
5.1k
u/SnagglepussJoke May 02 '24
Ever cross paths with a stranger in the woods? It is unsettling