I ran into a black bear on the trail in Glacier National Park last week...
but that's nothing compared to the guy who used a chain saw to battle a
starving mountain lion
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090717/ap_on_re_us/us_mountain_lion_attack)
or the jogger who fended off an attacking grizzly
(http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2009/06/08/bnews/br13.txt) !!
We were visiting Yellowstone National Park last spring. There was still a considerable amount of snow on the sides of the road. Going back to our campsite at Fishing Bridge, we encountered a male bison meandering up the middle of the road. He was about 1,000' from us when and impatient guest blew his horn. The bison turned and started running straight out our truck! There was nowhere to go as there was traffic on our left and deep snow on our right. My husband held on the the steering wheel waiting for the impact. The bison lowered his head and realized we went another bison! He turned just before hitting our truck. I didn't know how close he was because I was shooting it through the camera. Check out the slide show on the front page of our blog: http://lastofthegreat48.blogspot.com/