Daniel Crago<\/a>, 32, in an interview Sunday with the Los Angeles Times. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty painful, but I\u2019m making progress day by day.\u201d<\/p>\nThe attack unfolded at the end of the last hike on the last day of a trip to the popular Montana park, which sees more than 3 million visitors annually.<\/p>\n
Crago, a lifelong outdoor enthusiast who spent his childhood camping in Yosemite and Sequoia, had just taken a few snapshots from the end of the Grinnell Glacier trail and was headed back to meet his travel companion about 100 yards away when he spotted a grizzly cub just off to his left.<\/p>\n
Like most Golden State hikers, Crago had long ago learned what to do when confronted with a bear. He stayed calm and still, quickly scanning his surroundings for other grizzlies.<\/p>\n
What he saw next filled him with terror.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a larger grizzly maybe 10 feet above me,\u201d Crago said. \u201cThey tell you to alert the bear to make sure you don\u2019t frighten it. I called \u2018Hey bear! Hey bear!\u2019 \u201cAnd as it looked up, it charged at me.\u201d<\/p>\n
With no time to grab his bear spray, Crago said he threw up his right arm to try to shield himself instead. The bear bit through flesh and bone, dragging him for about 20 feet before dropping him and running away.<\/p>\n
\u201cI looked down at my arm and my hand was just kind of dangling,\u201d Crago said. \u201cIt was a full break of both forearm bones, an open wound, blood kind of pouring out.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said his terrifying encounter with Montana\u2019s most iconic apex predator won\u2019t dim his love of nature.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s something that\u2019s always been a part of who I am,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Diego man said he feels lucky to be alive and recovering at home this week after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-351043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}