{"id":589124,"date":"2026-08-10T17:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/589124\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T17:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:48:09","slug":"bikers-face-close-call-with-bear-near-kananaskis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/589124\/","title":{"rendered":"Bikers face close call with bear near Kananaskis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bear warning is in effect on a Kananaskis trail after two bikers had a close encounter with a black bear sow and her cubs.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta Parks says the bear bluff-charged the bikers on the Horseshoe Loop Trail before retreating into the bush after bear spray was deployed.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED STORIES:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The warning took effect Aug. 7 and remains in place until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors are reminded to carry accessible bear spray, travel in groups and make noise while watching for signs of wildlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bear warning is in effect on a Kananaskis trail after two bikers had a close encounter with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-589124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}