{"id":564921,"date":"2026-08-10T18:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/564921\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T18:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:14:13","slug":"bikers-face-close-call-with-bear-near-kananaskis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/564921\/","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":564922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-564921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}