68: Dan was mauled by a grizzly bear

What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.

Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media

True Crime, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Alaska is home to a lot of wildlife, including bears. Dan loves the outdoors. You name just about any outdoor activity, and he has done it. Hiking, camping, boating, climbing, and his main obsession – fishing. In his time outdoors, Dan has had more than one encounter with a bear. Typically, they just run off when they see a human. But there was one day when Dan unexpectedly crossed paths with an angry grizzly bear. It was a day he’ll never forget. Music at the end of this episode is part of the song Comatose Rider, written and performed by Dan Bigley. Let’s take a walk, by the river sideFish in the basket, red dog by my sideFeels like so long ago, I was 25 years old I cannot see, through the visions in my headFeels like I’ve been for so long in my bedSeems like the more I learn, the more my life seems newAnd you’re coming into view ChorusI don’t know how I got to the top of the mountainI don’t know, but I believe that its trueI don’t know how I got to the top of the mountainBut its got something, something to do with youIts got Something to do with youIts got everything to do with youSomething to doWith you VerseWhen it feels like, the desert sun and the canyon wrenAre a million miles awayI can hear you voice inside my head, whisper its gonna be OK ChorusI don’t know, how I got to the top of the mountainI don’t know, but I believe that its trueI don’t know how I got to the top of the mountainBut its got something, something to doWith youIts got something to do with youIts got everything to do, with youSomething to doWith you… Guitar solo OutroOh, are you feeling aliveOh, are you feeling aliveOh, are you feeling aliveOh, are you feeling so alive so alive singingOh, so alive, singingOh, yes I’m feeling so alive so alive, singingOh, so aliveOh, so alive Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Glass Fox Media Podcast.
0:25.6	A couple of weeks ago I was out on my regular morning bike ride. I was going through a neighborhood a few miles from my home and I saw up ahead that there was a large dog just walking down the sidewalk. At 8 o'clock in the morning, this is not really that unusual.
0:29.9	Some people walk their dogs every morning.
0:32.3	What was unusual was at Some people walk their dogs every morning.
0:33.0	What was unusual was that there were no people around.
0:37.0	It was just this big black lab, and he seemed to be just out for a walk on his own. Well I'm a real animal lover and that especially applies to dogs so I couldn't just keep riding and ignore this so I parked my bike and sort of cautiously watched the dog to see if it was friendly or not so friendly.
0:57.0	And the great thing about dogs is their tail.
1:01.0	That tail is a great indicator of their mood. And this dog, when he saw me,
1:07.6	just started wagging that tail and came right over to me. So I was talking to him and I checked his collar and sure enough there was a
1:15.2	tag with the dog's name, Jackson, and a phone number. So I held on to his collar with one hand and I dialed the number on my phone with the other hand, a lady answered and I just said,
1:29.0	Hi, do you have a dog named Jackson?
1:32.0	Well, she paused for a second and she said no but my
1:36.1	son does I'm actually in Colorado. So it turns out that Jackson used to be her
1:42.1	dog then when they moved to Colorado So it turns out that Jackson used to be her dog.
1:43.1	Then when they moved to Colorado, Jackson stayed here in Florida
1:46.9	with her son.
1:48.3	And he just never changed the phone number on the tag.
1:51.7	So the lady called her son, and he came out from a few doors down and got Jackson
1:56.2	back home. He actually wasn't even aware that Jackson had somehow gotten loose.
2:01.9	The point of that story is I was okay with cautiously approaching this 80
2:06.8	pound dog because in my experience most dogs are friendly. But what if instead of riding my bike through a neighborhood and seeing a dog,
2:17.0	I was instead hiking on a trail in Alaska and crossed paths with a bear. Of course I would have had a totally different reaction.
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